Sentences with phrase «of racial problems»

The West Virginia Human Rights Commission has initiated a formal investigation of racial problems in a school district that rights officials say has produced more complaints of racism than any other in the state in recent years.

Not exact matches

Following the 2017 documentary The Problem with Apu by comedian Hari Kondabolu, the show's writers decided to address the growing criticism of racial stereotyping associated with the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Indian owner of Springfield's Kwik - E-Mart.

For example, Reed says that if the employee in question recently «made complaints of racial or gender discrimination, yet the behavior or performance problem does exist, it's a good idea to talk to an attorney about how you might approach that person.»

Conservative spokesmen have pointed to the «trickling down» of the benefits of economic growth as the ultimate solution to racial problems; they have at times seemed to court the support of segregationist elements; and they remain at this late date without a positive program of action aimed at narrowing the yawning chasm separating the black poor from the rest of the nation.

(He does seem to recognize Islam, with its history of racial slavery and its missionary drive, as a particular problem, around which he stumbles and fumbles a bit.)

It is as though those shaping the domestic agenda of the government do not see the explicitly racial character of this problem, as if they do not understand the historical experiences that link, symbolically and sociologically, the current urban underclass to our long, painful legacy of racial trauma.

Rather, it is a plaintive cry for the need to actively engage this problem, for the elevation of concern for racial equality to a position of priority on our government's domestic affairs agenda.

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.

They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm.»

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

If whites reject racial preferences as unfair to them, and if politicians campaign on the issue, the problem is construed as a lack of restraint by unscrupulous candidates who are willing to use divisive tactics to achieve their ends.

Yet even in this year of racial turmoil, death and tragedy, the majority of Protestant clergymen in the progressive state of California had not devoted a single sermon to racial problems.

The problem of inclusion and exclusion has been especially acute with respect to racial groups but it has also arisen in connection with the national, linguistic, and ethnic groups who have come as immigrants to these shores.

One example of this is provided by the problem of racial antipathy, a problem that has been accentuated rather than diminished in the recent development of our civilization.

To help evangelicals grapple with the problems of implicit racial bias, Christian leaders must come to realize how deeply and personally experienced these problems are for so many in society and in the church.

The documentary explores not only the current systematic problems that have led to mass incarceration (which disproportionately effects people of color), but also the America's history of racial injustice — and how the two are related.

With the emergence of new concern in our own century for the people caught in problems of urbanization, racial discrimination, industrialization, and the like, the churches moved first — through the so - called social gospel movement — to correct the previous emphasis on soul - saving as dealing only with individual persons.

White middle class people often take the attitude that if only criminals, members of racial minorities, welfare recipients, Third World peoples, behaved like us and shared our values, they would not have the problems that they do.

In those places, particularly universities, where affirmative action has been most avidly embraced, the goal of racial equality and harmony is farther away than ever; and the inevitable response to this problem is an even more comprehensive and ambitious departure from the standard of color - blind policies.

The more the sad shell of what's left of the once Grand, now just Old, Party focuses on changing racial and ethic demographics as «the problem», the more moderates, youth and women — of all backgrounds — they alienate.

conclude: «Growing numbers of women are working together to create new solutions to the old problems of poverty, famine and racial prejudice, adding not only their energies and skills but also different perspectives on these problems».

Are we not embarrassed, as Christians, that the armed forces have moved faster than the churches toward solving the problem of racial segregation?

Far from obvious are the ethically appropriate approaches to the problems of pornography, glamourized violence, and stereotyping of any kind, especially racial or sexual.

Co-operation in the conquest of racial, national, economic, and social problems will by itself lead to the securing and maintaining of world peace.

Not because any biological inferiority results from a mixing of racial stocks, but because in the present state of society tensions are more often increased than abated by it, intermarriage is on the whole a step away from the solution of the race problem rather than toward it.

«You'll see on the backs of our shirts that we're highlighting a longtime problem of racial profiling and unjust violence against blacks in our country,» said Maya Moore in a pregame press conference.

Nothing gets my goat more than privileged white NCB advocates who think a problem of racial and economic inequality is all about THEM.

New York Times Magazine editor Tough profiles an ambitious effort to simultaneously address the seemingly eternal societal problems of poverty, class stratification, educational underachievement and racial discrimination.

I don't fully understand the present dynamic, and I don't think we will find the answer to our current problems by solely looking at the history of racial injustice in this country.

«The NASUWT welcomes the publication of this audit as a step to confirming the well - documented problem of racial discrimination at work and in our public life.

I'm proud of my role as Miranda, and if the popularity of the series will help me to raise awareness of the critical problems I'm running to fix in New York — like inequality, underfunded public schools, mass incarceration, and racial injustice — then I'm comfortable with that.

************** Funny, it sounds rather liek the arguments the Right uses to implement the laws designed to prevent voter fraud: Laws designed to correct a non-existant problem, except that racial discrimination is very real --- well if it is «very real» you and the leftist democrats should have no problem with offering concrete evidence of it.

[96] During his first State of the State address in January 1963, Romney declared that «Michigan's most urgent human rights problem is racial discrimination — in housing, public accommodations, education, administration of justice, and employment.»

«My ideological critique is that some of these proposals fail to resolve the underlying problem of racial disparity and unlawful searches,» said Bronx City Councilman Ritchie Torres one of the sponsors of the recently introduced «Right to Know Act.»

For racial disparities in legal outcomes, such acknowledgment of potential problems need not be cast as a «political issue.»»

The findings, published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hold implications for dealing not only with the problem of aggressive behavior in individuals, but also for better understanding of large - scale, long - standing cross-group conflicts such as the Arab - Israeli clash and racial strife in the United States.

«Racial inequality in educational outcomes is one of the biggest problems facing America today,» Adam said.

The last category of struggle women foresee would be that her inter racial children may encounter problems in this world.

Such scenarios are Racial issues which affect part of the dating.So to avoid a lot of problems tackling the said above problem, we need to dig deep and change the following.

Killmonger's burden was to be the lie itself — a small part of the vast racial and socio - economic problem that's been swept under the rug by Wakanda's prior leaders.

His concern with social justice, which manifested itself in The Sun Shines Bright also became more evident during the early»60s, in films such as Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964), all of which sought to address problems of racial prejudice.

Part of the problem with updating Sirk to make room for homophobia and a more comprehensive view of racial intolerance is that it idealizes the social impact of the original Sirk movies when they came out.

Here we come to one of the two big problems with Devil: some old - fashioned racial stereotyping.

The racial prejudice that Annie and Sarah Jane encounter throughout the film is confronting, and the amount of screen time dedicated to exploring their problems is interesting — and a deliberate attempt by Sirk to draw attention away from the more insignificant problems of his white characters.

Jordan Peele's dizzying racial horror thriller takes as deep a dive into the psychology of African - American experience as just about any film you could name, yet it's no liberal message movie; its cosmic joke is that liberals are part of the problem.

That's true whether it's Spike Lee, reaffirming not just racial equality but also an empowering sense of black pride with Grand Prix winner «BlacKkKlansman» (his first film in competition since «Jungle Fever» in 1991), or Jury Prize winner Nadine Labaki, whose harrowing child - endangerment drama «Capernaum» calls attention to the problem of neglected children in Beirut.

Had his seminal work focused on both the administrative problems and the social systems of school, Coleman later wrote, «our knowledge of how to overcome problems of racial segregation would be far more advanced than it is.»

Revisiting this topic in 2015, the many contributors to this issue of Education Next, writing from a broad range of perspectives, reveal that single parenthood is no longer limited to one racial group but constitutes a problem, with serious consequences for children, that still needs to be addressed.

As those who have studied the racial educational gaps in our public elementary and secondary schools have noticed, throwing children together does not solve the problems of dominance; it can, in fact, exacerbate them.