Sentences with phrase «of racist statements»

But all those dreams went up in smoke shortly after Alshak began working, when recordings of racist statements made by Clippers owner Donald Sterling were publicized in 2014.

With Trump's nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, a Senator with a history of racist statements (including referring to the NAACP and ACLU as «un-American»), the possibility of police facing charges for these deaths of unarmed people of color feels even slimmer.

Navalny is a stringent Kremlin critic who earlier this month won 27 % of the vote in Moscow mayoral elections, and who has himself been accused of racist statements.

On Saturday, TMZ released audio of a phone call between Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his girlfriend which featured a number of racist statements.

Not exact matches

In November 2016, just four months into their relationship, Harry released a statement slamming the press for its racist, sexist, and defamatory coverage of Markle, an American divorcee whose mother is black and father is white and Jewish.

If either of those books had included a number of overtly racist statements, their candidacies would be over before they started.

That includes Attorney General candidate Jeff Sessions, who argues that legal immigration primarily benefits economic elites at the expense of workers, but has also made racist statements.

So if the primary focus was crime you would say that crime was «a staple» of Black people and would not consider it a racist statement?

The African group of ambassadors to the United Nations have issued a statement condemning the «outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks» and demanded a retraction and apology.

@willard — Her previous statements where she said she hates bl@cks because of her personal experience with bl@cks were racist.

This kind of statement comes from a racist sick mind..

A statement read: «Kick It Out is aware of repeated racist chanting by supporters of Manchester United today (23 September).

... is not, contrary to popular belief, his outrageous statements or his racist and sexually explicit e-mails, according to veteran GOP consultant Jack Cookfair, who has run dozens of campaigns over the years and is based (part - time, at least) in Central NY.

The get - together went as well as can be expected for a guy who has a very conservative position about immigration, sent out racist e-mails and made a number of controversial statements about various ethnic groups.

«Paladino has a long history of racist and incendiary comments,» Cuomo wrote in a statement Friday.

Green party leader Caroline Lucas described the next President as a «racist» in the headline of the hard hitting statement she sent out.

Vacco referenced the racist statements from that Artvoice article written by Paladino, where he said he hoped President Obama would die of mad cow disease and Michelle Obama would «return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe.»

Paladino, who did not attend the meeting, released a statement indicating he does not intend to heed the resolution's call, accusing his fellow board members of being «racist and incompetent.»

The son of upstate billionaire Carl Paladino was forced over the weekend to try to distance himself — and the family's real - estate firm — from his dad's racist statements against the Obamas, saying the comments were «disrespectful and absolutely unnecessary.»

«The coalition does not applaud the Manhattan DA's announcement, which, like other half - hearted efforts to combat decades of racist policing, still upholds the notion that people should continue to be punished for being too poor to use public transportation,» the group said in a statement released late afternoon.

Bickley told The Buffalo News that the noose display is not a statement of racism and that's he's not a racist.

In a statement, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, slammed Paladino for a «long history of racist and incendiary comments.»

«I think it's like a racist statement that they are questioning the three people of color and they always bring up money,» Alcantara said in a phone interview, pointing to reports of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions she received from the IDC.

Buffalo parents in the District Parent Coordinating Council have filed a petition with the State Department of Education demanding the removal of School Board Member Carl Paladino for what they call «his history of racist, incendiary and destructive behavior,» including his most recent published statements about the Obamas.

The president of Utica College has issued a statement — which includes an apology from four students — after images which «appear to portray a racist situation» were shared on the social media platform Snapchat on Friday.

As the party of Abraham Lincoln that abolished slavery, racist statements are against our core principles and can not be tolerated in any form.

James McGrath: In response to a question from ConservativeHome's Samuel Coates («Boris has released a statement saying that James McGrath isn't a racist and that he was taken out of context.

Chain spokesman Glenn DiResto said the candidate vying to replace City Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D - Forest Hills) axed Lee Landor as soon as the campaign learned of the 24 - year - old's online statement calling Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. a «racist» and President Barack Obama «O - dumb - a.»

Referring to the fracas over the messages, Mr. Jacobs, in his statement, asked whether Mr. Paladino was «racist, misogynist as his e-mails suggest he is or is he just a high school boy in the body of a 64 - year - old man?»

Mr. Paladino demonstrated a craven disregard for the dignity of the first family, and the ugly and racist nature of his statements reflects poorly on all of us in public education.

UPDATED 16 June, 1:40 p.m.: On the eve of Tuesday's debate, the government of Equatorial Guinea issued a statement (in Spanish) that accused critics of the prize of displaying «a hidden racist, arrogant, and neocolonial attitude» that seeks «to relegate an African country to an inferior status.»

But still, as a pupil in the rural area of Thuringia in the 1980ies, he could hear a lot of antisemitic, facist and racist statements of peer students on the schoolground, often in form of «jokes «like «Ich bin hungrig / mir ist kalt — ich will zurück nach Buchenwald «(I am hungry, I am cold — I want to go back to Buchenwald «-RRB-.

Graystone's attorney Brian Leinhauser's statement last year expressed concerns that the district's decision to take legal action to close the charter school may have been connected to the racist sentiments expressed by former Superintendent Richard Como and high school Director of Athletics and Activities Jim Donato.

«Recent statements by legislative Republicans who have threatened to further cut MPS funding as punishment for not implementing their racist experiment prove that they have zero concern for the quality of education in our city.

He has called public education advocate Diane Ravitch a racist on dozens of occasions and has made similar statements about AFT President Randi Weingarten and other teacher union officials.

«In terms of the reaction, we're in the business of entertainment... We didn't set out to make a racist game or a political statement.

Omer Fast responds to critics of his New York show Omer Fast has issued a statement in response to accusations that his current exhibition at James Cohan gallery in Manhattan's Chinatown district perpetuates racist stereotypes.

Calling themselves the Chinatown Art Brigade, the activists issued a statement claiming that the «choice of visual signifiers» represented «racist aggression towards the community of Chinatown».

Members of CAB, as well as representatives from the groups Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence and Decolonize This Place, occupied the inside of the gallery and taped a statement about the show to a pole near the building's facade, arguing that the show perpetuates racist stereotypes about the local community.

The soldier, Private First Class Jeremy T. Wilcox, faced charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice related to statements he posted online and made in online chat rooms that were racist and that expressed support for white supremacy.

The First Amendment prohibits criminal prosecution of a U.S. Army paratrooper for racist statements he made online, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has ruled in a July 15 decision, United States v. Wilcox.

«Today, for example, if a public employee posts a racist statement on Facebook or Twitter, the statement can be widely disseminated in a matter of minutes, and the public exposure can be almost instant.

In brief, during the course of the officers» trials, both the Number 2 and Number 3 lawyers in the New Orleans United States Attorney's Office repeatedly posted comments on nola.com (under anonymous handles, of course) that were critical of the NOPD, including statements that the NOPD was corrupt and that a defense witness was racist and delusional.

They pointed to the 2008 statement by Lord Ouseley, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, that the Solicitors Regulation Authority was institutionally racist and had discriminated against Black and Asian solicitors.