Sentences with phrase «of white friends»

His black friends knew little of his white friends; his gay friends knew little of his straight ones.»

Because of this, I had the opportunity to have a lot of white friends and I've dated quite a few.

This is something that none of my white friends have experienced.

The younger generation of black adults and young children are having plenty of white friends, and black / white couples are at an all - time high.

When we graduated, some of us applied for the same job at a local company, and even though my grades were worse than some of my white friends, I got hired.

Not exact matches

Believing he could bring together the seemingly incompatible, White took out a line of credit on his Visa and borrowed from friends, and opened his first store, in midtown Toronto.

The two men at the center of the incident were waiting inside the Starbucks location for a white friend on Thursday but did not order anything and were asked to leave.

Along the way, I greeted locals out harvesting their food for the day, and made a friend of Luz, a white horse who I'd see every time my run came to an end.

«We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump's support of Nazism and white supremacy.

Maybe they have a friend or a relative who works in the White House who could get you a west wing tour of the oval office few other visitors can access.

And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

It wasn't until officers brought out one of Juliet's horse friends that the white pony came out of hiding from an orchard.

Remnick criticized the strange relationship between the new White House and some media analysts, appearing to subtly knock the hosts of «Morning Joe,» whose host Joe Scarborough has offered both public and private advice to Trump, a longtime friend of Scarborough and a consistent viewer of the MSNBC show.

«Starting in 2017, we will have a friend in the White House who was clearly elected because the people of this country believe in the conservative principles that have guided the way we govern in Texas,» Patrick said in November.

What it's about: Another Disney hit, «Bambi» uses an all - animal cast of characters in a story about a white - tailed deer, his animals friends, and a haunting death in the family.

I am excited to be charged with implementing Chairman White's mandate of bold and unrelenting enforcement and thrilled to be teaming again with George, an immensely talented lawyer and close friend.»

And some of Trump's friends fear that the short - tempered president is on an inevitable collision course with White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.

A tentative deal for $ 500 million fell through because Qatar sought to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest after Jared Kushner was named senior White House adviser, according to Tom Barrack, a Trump friend who had suggested Hamad look at investing with the Kushners.

In this week's roundup: lots of confusion over whether the Florida school shooter was a white supremacist, the argument for being friends with racists and more.

Hicks had been contemplating leaving the White House for several weeks and told friends that she was relieved to finally announce her move... She felt three years was a long time to work in the whirlwind of the Trump orbit, with crises occurring by the day and sometimes by the hour, and was eager to try something new and return home to her family in Connecticut.

When I asked Marc Short, who now serves as the White House director of legislative affairs, about these exchanges, he dismissed them as good - natured razzing between friends.

And in 2015, Duncan, Obama's secretary of education, pointed to his old friend's district as a national role model and invited Runcie to speak at a White House panel called «Rethink School Discipline.»

Yesterday my friend Rick Garnett, who teaches law at Notre Dame and blogs at Mirror of Justice, took issue with my article (and White's).

I've been convicted before when I've seen black friends lament on social media for the lack of white Christians speaking out against injustice.

To better appreciate the moral significance of Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends in the White Rose resistance movement, I began to search my own memory for a point of connection with them and the great decision they made.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

The eye hails its friends far off: the cone of the mountain, gradations of white and violet in the snow, and barely moving against the distant cold, the bluejacket and green cap of a skier.

Essentially two white men invited their friends and had a secret, exclusive strategy meeting on the state of the movement and most of us were not invited.»

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

Let me say it plainly: white Christians need to check friends, family and acquaintances when they see anything racist that doesn't resemble the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ted Nugent: Trayvon Martin was a «dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe» ANSWER - Ted Nugent IS a dope smoking white as an empty ghost sack of maggots in my garbage racist gangster: with maggot sack of garbage police friends all over the U.S..

Far more worried about communism than racial inequality, the Kennedys forced King to break his ties with his closest white friend in the summer of 1963 as a condition for their continued lukewarm support of the movement.

I was pleased to see it on display at the press conference I watched last night, when the president spoke so eloquently about the flight of his friend, poor Skip Gates, and the indignity he had to endure from a racially insensitive white police officer.

hmmmmmm interesting... look im not a hater who hates white people... in fact some of my very good friends are white blue eyes beautiful people... and i love the states... but just trying to give you guys a lil taste of your own medicine... taste bad right?

Skier «The experience starts as that smelly feeling... — Alfred North Whitehead The eye hails its friends far off: the cone of the mountain, gradations of white and violet in the snow, and barely moving against the distant cold, the bluejacket and green cap of a skier.

At the same time, the film harks back to Disney's first - ever fairy - tale feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its story of a princess in disguise living hidden in a forest; a villainess with access to supernatural powers; a supporting cast of lovable eccentrics; frolicking animal friends; and a handsome prince who awakens the heroine from a deathlike sleep with love's first kiss.

I'm white and attended a black church recently with a friend, and while I was certainly made to feel welcome, I must say I felt a bit out of place.

All of these items could show up in the White House, said Grant Bennett, an old Romney friend who spoke at the Republican National Convention and has known the Romney family since they met through church in 1978.

On Saturday, I watched good friends carry a miniature white casket up the aisle of our parish church, to be laid before the altar for a funeral Mass..

I will probably colour it tomorrow but I'm feeling more welcoming, like my white hairs are old friends now instead of new enemies.

Devotion, by Adam Makos (Ballantine): The story of the U.S. Navy's first African - American carrier pilot, Jesse Brown, and his white squadron - mate and friend, Tom Hudner, is touching in its own right and a timely antidote to the politically - correct madness of recent months on campuses and elsewhere.

It seems that for my Western Christian friends, if missionaries did not justify by their field labors the guilt the West carries about the mischief of the white race in the rest of the world, then other missionaries would have to be invented to justify that guilt.

The only problem with such black and white answers is they run in stark contrast to the love that permeates from one of my best friends.

A friend recently returned from a meeting of United Methodist social justice executives who were evaluating the significance of the November election and reports that the conclusion seemed to be unanimous: The November election represented the last desperate hurrah of the white, male, racist establishment to perpetuate its control of American society.

Again, if you read my postings, you can see that I have an extremely diverse circle of very close friends: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Gay, Lesbian, straight, white, black, hispanic, asian, etc...

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

Just over five years ago I stood on the stage of a dimly lit chapel waiting for my very best friend, dressed in white, to come stand beside me as...

White, a longtime friend, has been Trump's biggest advocate and defender of his faith to fellow Christian leaders.

White Northern liberals represented themselves as the friends of the Negro and deceived King and many other blacks into believing that they really wanted to achieve racial justice in America.

«In attending meetings, this singularity was a trial to me, and more especially at this time, as white hats were used by some who were fond of following the changeable modes of dress, and as some friends, who knew not from what motives I wore it, grew shy of me, I felt my way for a time shut up in the exercise of the ministry.