Sentences with phrase «of racist elements»

As supporters and defenders of the old order, they are willing to watch some of its racist elements die, but they will not acknowledge the great evil it brought to the nation.

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Rob Ford, defended at every turn by his brother Doug, was prepared to regularly lie about his addictions, to abuse his oath of office, to associate with criminal elements, to dismiss his racist and misogynistic comments as the new normal, and to attack and bully those with the courage to confront him — as if they, not he, were at fault for his transgressions.

Hitler, for a time, advocated for Germans a form of the Christian faith he called «Positive Christianity», [244][245] a belief system purged of what he objected to in orthodox Christianity, and featuring added racist elements.

You should also admit that it was * parts * of the church who were among the last to relinquish the idea of slavery as natural and some elements are still quite racist.

Indeed, over the last few years clubs have got quite good at addressing this sort of thing among their own fans, at least in high - profile instances, and it's perhaps a positive sign that having a racist element among the support is considered terrible PR.

In Lee's Bamboozled, he's invoked (alongside many other silent and early - sound - era performers) as a grotesque specter of racist Hollywood representation — the ghost of minstrelsy past — but writers like Mel Watkins and Champ Clark have complicated the issue by suggesting that there was an element of subversion in Perry's subservience — that the shiftless, feckless caricature he inhabited in so many movies was not a capitulation to the viewership (or the filmmakers) but a bold form of ethnic masquerade.

In a film full of so many incredibly bad elements, the fact that they were able to cast an African - American willing to make a mockery of the legitimate pleas of actual victims of racist police brutality is beyond comprehension, especially a comedian held in such high regard.

Actress Butterfly McQueen describes the dilemma of intelligent and gifted black actors forced to play iconic stereotypes, and there's added material on Selznick's decision to prune away the novel's more racist elements from the screenplay.

Platoon is laughably bad, with horrible acting, narration, dialouge and over use of its score.This film fails at every level, every character is an over the top, cardboard cutout.Every white southerner is a drunken, racist, maniac.Every black soldier is a drug addict or coward, or both.When scenes make you laugh, when its intended to be moving?That's a problem.Full metal jacket is much MUCH more powerful and original.It has a black comedy / horro / thriller / element that has allowed this film to age so beautifully.Platoon's plot, is devoid of any tension.Once one of the 3 main characters die, we KNOW what's going to happen, and it DOES!

There won't be a single bullet that cures all areas of disadvantage faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, but real constitutional reform would have important symbolic significance to ensure that our foundational document removes the racist elements that still pervade our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities.