Sentences with phrase «of white guilt»

Beyond that, Tom Wilkinson is the obvious stand - out from the supporting men of «Belle «-- a sympathetic yet conflicted representation of white guilt that many Academy voters can likely identify with.

white people like him because they they think it somehow takes care of their white guilt

So these corporations never pay to the measure of any actual racism; they pay to the measure of racism's hyped - up and bloated reputation in the age of white guilt.»

Not exact matches

By evoking past suffering and current deprivations experienced by the ghetto poor, some black leaders seek to feed the guilt, and worse, the pity of the white establishment.

We agree that alcoholism is not in any conventional sense a «disease»: That white lie gained ground in early Alcoholics Anonymous because it helped unburden the alcoholic of guilt and self - hatred at the outset of recovery, enabling him to perceive that his own sense of powerlessness was not the last word.

It remains impossible to assess the relative causal impacts of populism, white guilt, sharp ideological shifts and covert racism in this action.

This idea of guilt clinging to our souls appears in texts that picture forgiveness as a cleansing or washing and the state of our forgiven souls as clean and white (cf. Ps.

No, this type of guilt is a luxury mostly afforded to the White Anglo - Saxon Protestants who endure the obligation of feeling bad for the plight of everybody and everything in the world.»

Such efforts give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable of facing the truth about their situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).

How can I, white and middle class, acknowledge my corporate (not to say personal) guilt in institutionalized racism and then claim that God, the primal source of all societal relationships, remains utterly innocent of all that transpires?

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.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

We are guilty of using the degrees of removal that separate an upper - class white Midwestern Christian from a Haitian mother as guilt trips or morality moments.

To those who are open to exploring a radically different way of understanding racism in America, I recommend White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement.

Debriefing revealed that many of the participants had become aware of race - related feelings — shock, fear, expectation of rejection, vulnerability, confusion, inferiority as a Black, relief at being White again, and guilt about these responses.5 This group was relatively free of conscious prejudices and was dedicated to racial justice.

The bar is a soft white cheese coated in dark chocolate that caters to consumers looking for guilt - free indulgent dairy options and stands out among a sea of nut - based refrigerated bars.

Broccoli has that guilt - inducing green hue that tells you to eat more of it, while cauliflower is a pearly, milky, innocent white... but they're from the same cruciferous family (Brassicaceae, right?)

This effortless white bean dip makes a great app before a big meal, it feels substantial enough that you don't eat 10 pounds of it before dinnertime, and doesn't have the guilt - inducing after effects of say a nut - covered cheese ball.

(I've got a very nice «no guilt chocolate cake» recipe that is similar but uses a little bit of white vinegar in place of the egg.

It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist soc

It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist society.

I am not arguing that Westerners act out of a sense of perpetual «white guilt» and give away all of their personal material belongings or wealth to local people.

If our Westchester County Justice system can create an atmosphere guilt of Black officers but White officers continue to violate policies, then any young man, especially, a young black man does not have a chance for any real transparency of the law in Westchester County.

The 65 calories are fewer than those in a Granny Smith apple, well below the calories in glass of white wine, and you get to go home without the guilt.

For myself, I have decided that white potatoes should not be the basis of my diet, but are a perfectly healthy to have from time to time without any guilt or concern at all.

Just to relieve my guilt of using a cup of white chocolate chips in a recipe titled Protein Balls, I did do a calorie count.

While tackling subjects like white guilt, the national anthem and the righteously religious, he simultaneously skewers his own sense of male entitlement.

He reminded me of the guilt - ridden white liberals in the»60s who invited the Black Panthers into their wealthy homes and thought they were so chic.

The last days of guilt - free glitz had consequences for more than two white chicks and their boyfriends, and Stillman shows how with delicious malice and unexpected compassion.

In a film filled with examples of whites either habitually exploiting blacks — or even in the case of the fundamentally decent but chronically guilt - stricken Schultz, deciding to «take responsibility» for them — Stephen's calculated and ultimately self - defeating betrayal of a figurative «brother» is truly diabolical and heartbreaking, not to mention a ballsy move for Tarantino, who could have easily gotten away cleaner as a white writer - director without hinging the back half of his movie on a case of Southern Stockholm Syndrome.

At the risk of further estranging myself from De Palma geeks, I must admit I rather enjoyed watching a Body Double without Armond White guilt - tripping my subconscious — which is not to say that Looker circumvents an auteurist reading altogether, but the idiosyncrasies that betray it as «Crichtonian» (like a novelistic conceit that starts off each new act with a placard indicating the day of the week *) are less than venerable and thus hardly lend themselves to an apologia.

Its reaching a zenith of overcompensatory white guilt to me.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

(One is also reminded of the character in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace who uncomplainingly accepts her rape by three black men out of white liberal guilt.)

Part of the film seems to be about the white man's guilt over the destruction of the aboriginal culture.

It's a little confusing why the film doesn't simply make Tonto a white guy who takes on what he believes is the personality of a Comanche because he feels guilt for what the white man has done.

Henry Fonda stars as the only dissenting jury member as 12 white men debate the guilt of a Puerto Rican teenager.

But even those who loathe Herbert Spencer and his theories on natural selection should question these characters and their motivations, whether motivated by guilt or a sort of perverse white supremacist ignorance.

Instead, though it's easy to miss the single line of dialogue that explains this (about the camping site once being the location of a massacre of the Koori people by settlers), Killing Ground is about white guilt.

A literal white knight, he's the empty vesicle for not quite enough white guilt to prevent A Time To Kill from being another movie that invests the fate of black folks in an unctuous cracker.

And this year, rock bottom undoubtedly belongs to That Wasn't Me, unanimously selected by Slant's prognosticating panel as this lineup's most obnoxiously self - satisfied case of well - heeled white - savior guilt run amok.

For the first act, we are introduced to our main characters: a poor Latin - American mother and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul, the real hearts of this film), an insufferable yuppie couple on the brink of divorce (Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) from which we get the lion's share of our Crash - style white guilt narrative, and Frank Grillo as a grieving father / ex-soldier who feels the urge to Purge one particular soul on this night.

• Zones of black shadow and white light, guilt and innocence, swinging from face to face as The General (Brendan Gleeson) and his mirror opposite (Jon Voight) trade confessions in a jail cell...

They have blithely ignored lessons learned when the Great Society's social engineers sought to sustain ambitious social programs on the backs of guilt - ridden white suburbanites, only to fail spectacularly.

Elite white guilt made it impossible to say that a lot of black children were going to continue to fail in school and there's nothing anybody could do about it.

To Als, this was not the idle talk of a relatively privileged woman atoning for her white guilt.

Jed Perl thought the show was calculated to get «white male critics into... [a] sweat of guilt and remorse and accommodation.»

Hannah Black demands that all whites wallow in shame about racist violence against blacks, but in the case of Gober's work, his attempt to represent white guilt did not prevent a protest.

«Straight White Male,» the title of Quilty's recent solo exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong, is both a verdict and an admission of guilt.

This is especially true of countries like China and India, who have totally different priorities than worrying about a «rich white man's» guilt - driven obsession with CO2.