Sentences with phrase «of white elites»

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While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

The project was the brainchild of Robb, who was growing increasingly concerned by Whole Foods» reputation as a white, elite, expensive company.

Savannah Law School professor Andrew Wright, former associate counsel in the Obama White House, said it is unusual for a president to turn to lawyers like Ekonomou who are untested on the national scene and not part of the elite white - collarWhite House, said it is unusual for a president to turn to lawyers like Ekonomou who are untested on the national scene and not part of the elite white - collarwhite - collar bar.

That's created a large cadre of people (and by «people,» I mean white men from elite colleges) who can get away with just about anything.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

Blind faith based on the musings of a few elderly gentlemen of the first and second century CE, and promulgated by a few «elite», white male Europeans is no longer acceptable.

(By the reasoning of elite Democrats, the 30 percent of African - American Virginians who oppose taking down the Confederate monuments either do not exist or are highly confused white supremacists.)

Lindsay spearheaded a study of former White House Fellows (an elite....

However, while the exposed white rock maple tongue - and - groove plank hardwood floor of the skating rink exists even today, the modern incarnation of the Hatt Building is home to a group of elite hotel rooms, each boasting a King canopy bed, fireplace and slipper - backed tub as well as a separate walk - in shower and comfy sitting area with lounge chairs and a velvet ottoman that make these cozy yet elegant rooms an ideal retro retreat.

Archbishop Mitty coach Sue Phillips will have her San Jose Cagers Blue and White teams at the EOT Bay Area Ultimate Challenge, with the Blue team the third of the elite Bay Area teams competing at the Ultimate Fieldhouse.

You would want your college sports played the way they were at the turn of the 20th century — by the white guys whose parents were wealthy enough to send them to an elite college.

Secondly, Nick Griffin is in the process of reforming his party, ditching all the old clause 4 style baggage of the past, and bringing together a party of black and white loyal British people, who will challenge the One - Party - State corrupt liberal elites, end multicultural balkanisation, Islamisation and mass immigration and bring Britain's sovereignty back from Europe.

White's By the 19th century much political boozing took place behind the closed doors of London's elite gentlemen's clubs, such as White's, which were often former coffee houses.

Old, white, impoverished males — once the people who decided elections — have been left behind, becoming little more than spectators of a political battlefield now dominated by a university - trained metropolitan elite.

Also joining the mix with a guest appearance will be members of the Trump family, plus Las Vegas legend Wayne Newton who appropriately had the 1963 hit «Danke Schoen» — which means this power - elite party promises to be far more entertaining and enlightening than the beleaguered White House Correspondents» Dinner.

He is a former white - shoe corporate lawyer and also a longtime critic of aggressive policing, practiced at wooing rank - and - file Democrats and city elites at the same time.

«Donors range from deep - pocketed members of elite New York City law firms to a client whose white - collar criminal conviction Schreibman convinced a judge to throw out.

It is, in my view, a perfectly rational reaction by a growing proportion of the white working class who feel marginalised by a political elite that would rather ignore them.

The MP told Stewart White her words were aimed at the heart of 10 Downing Street to crack the elite circle which had formed around the Prime Minister.

«Within the ranks of elites, climate change denialists are overwhelmingly conservative white males,» reads the report, pointing to figures like talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Marshall Institute CEO, William O'Keefe.

This conclusion was reached after analyzing the remains of white - tailed deer, and points to the social division of food: The best parts were for the elite.

In a separate study, Frisby examined 643 news stories about elite tennis players Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber to determine if athletes of color receive different amounts of microaggressions from the media compared to white athletes who experience similar amounts of athletic success.

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The White House seems cushy and inviting here, like a grand hotel — it's easy to imagine flopping around on the presidential bed — and the warm way the setting is visualized melds with the film's impish attempt to show us the human side of America's ruling elite.

Forced to accept an under - the - table job finding a missing socialite, Easy is caught between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue.

If you only watch one film this year wherein a Game Of Thrones character escalates through the ranks of a elite prison gang of white supremacists after manslaughtering Schmidt from New Girl in a drunk driving accident, make it Shot Caller, currently streaming on Amazon PrimOf Thrones character escalates through the ranks of a elite prison gang of white supremacists after manslaughtering Schmidt from New Girl in a drunk driving accident, make it Shot Caller, currently streaming on Amazon Primof a elite prison gang of white supremacists after manslaughtering Schmidt from New Girl in a drunk driving accident, make it Shot Caller, currently streaming on Amazon Primof white supremacists after manslaughtering Schmidt from New Girl in a drunk driving accident, make it Shot Caller, currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

by Alan Snow, «The Boxtrolls» takes place in Cheesebridge, where the news that the underground - dwelling Boxtrolls have stolen a child leads evil exterminator Archibald Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley) to offer to kill all of the little creatures in exchange for being allowed to join the city's elite White Hats.

«Get Out» also beats Desmond Nakano's less - than - inspired, gimmicky 1995 drama «White Man's Burden,» a work of forced empathy in which elite blacks dominate society while whites live in ghettos.

If Peele goes more for the jugular than the subtext in the final scenes, it doesn't distract from the provocative blend of scares and smarts he uses to stick it to the white liberal elite.

In the opposite direction, Fabian Suarez's Caballos offers an intimate look at the intellectual elite of a different Havana, shot in black and white, in which the titular horses become metaphor for the powerful, fragile or prosaic nature of its inhabitants.

The scheming social climber is obsessed with becoming a member of Cheesebridge's elite ruling club of White Hats.

Get Out follows a young black man (Sicario's Daniel Kaluuya) to the swanky country home of his white girlfriend (Girls» Allison Williams), where the oafish racial glad - handing of a smug liberal elite gives way to a more overt threat.

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

We then glimpse, in a series of rapid cuts: Danai Gurira as Okoye, the leader of the Dora Milaje, the elite force of women warriors who guard T'Challa; Michael B. Jordan as the fantastically named baddie Erik Killmonger in the most awesome mask, who is threatening Wakanda's dynasty; Angela Bassett as Ramonda, T'Challa's royal mother, gorgeously white - haired; my soulmate Lupita Nyong» o as a member of the Dora Milaje, and Letitia Wright as Shuri, T'Challa's sister and princess of Wakanda; the Dora Milaje ready to kick all of the ass and take all of the names.

Affleck brings big - screen charisma, understated wit, and a hint of tenderness to the role of Chris, a man who wants to connect with other people but doesn't quite know how; Anna Kendrick does her winsome Anna - Kendrick thing as a CPA unknowingly entangled in a diabolical corporate scheme; J.K. Simmons and Jon Bernthal offer solid supporting performances as, respectively, a Treasury agent and an elite hitman; and the great Jeffrey Tambor is even tucked in there, as a white - collar con in a high - security prison.

The young stars join an elite list of other Hollywood A-listers to make a splash on the Great White Way.

Part of that work must involve the elite, mostly white industry of analysts, writers, consultants, nonprofit executives, and other professionals who conduct the business of rethinking education.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

After two years of interviewing more than 100 black, Latino, and white undergraduates at an elite university, Jack came up with a new way to think about how factors like poverty and socioeconomic segregation — segregation by class — shape the way students experience college.

However, Moe does not point out that core constituents of the Republican party — middle - class and white families in suburbs — also disagree with their party elites on choice.

The effects of the triumphant Civil Rights Movement gave a special reason for white elites in the 1960s to start ignoring the implications of intellectual limitations.

In the years immediately following Katrina, one - third to as many as half of New Orleans» teachers were from Teach for America, a program of mostly white graduates of elite colleges.

I guess you are insinuating that I am one of those «white prosperous college educated professionals, who themselves were tutored, prepped, and tested to gain entrance to elite universities.»

«The mission was to recover the schools, not to maintain a group of white bureaucrats not from New Orleans,» said Mr. White, 41, an alumnus of the elite St. Albans School in Washington and the University of Virgwhite bureaucrats not from New Orleans,» said Mr. White, 41, an alumnus of the elite St. Albans School in Washington and the University of VirgWhite, 41, an alumnus of the elite St. Albans School in Washington and the University of Virginia.

These are mostly white teachers from elite colleges and universities across the country who help enforce the new style of discipline in New Orleans schools.

While the Boston papers are writing glowing tributes to the next President of the Boston Teachers Union and the heart - wrenching search for the next headmaster of the exam school that educates mostly the white elite in the city of Boston, the real news...

Therefore, instead of sending their children to private institutions, the white elite continued to send their children to the public schools in Columbus.

One, a system of elite private and religious schools for well - to - do, mostly White parents with the means to afford expensive tuition payments, staffed by qualified, certified teachers, with a rich curriculum based on face - to - face instruction in clean, safe, well - maintained schools...

Only nine people have ever been chosen by renowned children's author Laura White to join «The Rabbit Back Literature Society,» an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back.

You are talking to a man whose mentor (John Ohliger) first brought me into the book review game because he wanted to take what had been a kind of academic white tower of book reviewing reserved for the literary elites into the province of the common folk — housewives, cab drivers, students, (and in my case) social workers.