Sentences with phrase «of white majority»

As she reveals throughout the book, integration was not only a threat to the culture of the white majority, but established a legitimate fear held by African Americans and people of color of «whitewashing» their culture and local communities.

That reading Twain — and more specifically, in participating in a class discussion dominated by the interventions of the white majority students in the class — could cause significant discomfort for African American students in the room is certainly an understandable expectation.

The same may not be true of white majority churches.

For example, traditionally, such designations as «marginalization,» «underdevelopment,» «disadvantaged» social groups, and so forth have referred to cultural patterns of those who are not members of the white majority social group.

Through the morally persuasive nature of his appeal, King mobilized the conscience of the white majority.

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«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (55 percent), white mainline Protestants (60 percent), Catholics (62 percent), minority Protestants (69 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (64 percent) also favor a path to citizenship for immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.

In 2012, a study conducted by the Los Angeles Times found that roughly 94 % of the organization's members were white and that a significant majority were men with a median age of 62.

As the White House engages in a fierce fight to restrict travel into the U.S. by citizens of some Muslim - majority countries, a record number of Americans are voluntarily renouncing their citizenship.

The majority of business leaders surveyed want our securities regulators to catch fraudsters with greater regularity, and want Canadian courts to impose tougher sentences on white - collar criminals.

Ashley Stoney is the kind of black, millennial woman who thrives in corporate America: Educated, over-prepared, focused on achievement, comfortable in majority white environments.

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

Buffett said that the vast majority of the calories in Coke come from sugar, which Buffett called «the white powder.»

Trump's reported choice of terminology to describe majority - black countries — while suggesting that more immigrants should come to the U.S. from the very - white Norway — sparked international outrage.

But with the majority of millennials skewing further left, while Republicans gained control of Congress and the White House, Smith — labeled «a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large» by The New York Times — needed a new way to walk the tightrope.

«It's not surprising to anybody who knows Rob that he's avoided the squabbles and turf battles that have consumed so many others in this White House,» Brian McGuire, a former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, told Business Insider.

Mitt Romney is considered the most likely to win the Republican presidential nomination (59 % of respondents gave him the nod) but the majority of respondents, 63 %, predict President Barack Obama will hold on to the White House.

Government lending data reviewed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows the companies direct their lending toward white borrowers and white neighborhoods, even in metros like Philadelphia where a majority of residents are people of color.

The figures were especially stark for Trident, which placed all of its 55 loan centers across Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in majority - white neighborhoods, Reveal's analysis found.

The analysis also showed 92 percent of the company's conventional home loan applications came from borrowers in majority - white neighborhoods.

In January 2017, HNA Capital, one of the group's subsidiaries, pledged $ 200 million for a majority stake in SkyBridge Capital, the New York hedge fund of Anthony Scaramucci, facilitating Scaramucci's colorful, albeit brief, stint as an official in the Trump White House.

Why is it that it's affirmative action that they say is causing this when in fact in most of these institutions, they are majority white?

Michelle Hirschberg and Karen Land Short, were both devastated following the election result and were deeply disappointed that the majority of white women voted against having a female president.

But the conclusion of the Games has left a mass of white elephants in its wake: the majority of the sporting venues and Olympic Village have all fallen into neglect now that the Games are over.

The Democratic senator's proposed legislation will face an unlikely road to passage, considering that most lawmakers (including those in the White House) are reluctant to end the drug's federal prohibition, but the bill is still the latest attempt by a prominent politician to update federal marijuana laws at a time when a clear majority of Americans support legalization.

«A majority of PAE suits are brought against non-tech companies,» says Colleen Chien, whose work is cited extensively in a white paper that accompanied the administration's legislative proposals.

(Bloomberg)-- The White House is scaling back its plan to seek cuts from already - passed spending bills in the face of resistance from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and spending panel Republicans, two GOP congressional aides briefed on the plan said Thursday.

All of Trident's offices are in white neighborhoods, where it makes the overwhelming majority...

Specific statistics on ethnic background are harder to come by, but the overwhelming majority of venture partners are white, and there's little disagreement that the pool of entrepreneurs they fund isn't very diverse, either.

It's because of that delicate majority that many White House officials expect a tax bill — if it eventually becomes law — to more closely resemble the Senate bill.

(Another study, of user photos in seventy - two majority - black neighborhoods, suggested that most Airbnb hosts there were white, complicating the picture.)

Another White House official, Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, said on NBC News's «Meet the Press» that Trump is standing with the «vast majority» of Americans who believe the flag «should be respected.»

Do you not realize that the majority of African Americans have white relatives due to the repeated raping of their women, and the fact that white women just black men?

Recent diversity reports of major tech companies show that white males make up the vast majority of their workforce and leadership...

As white men are in the majority of positions in power in America, it is outright IMPOSSIBLE to be racist towards white people.

The answer is simple, they aren't — it is the white, more Aryan featured Jews in this country who have labeled themselves as «Neocons» who have merged with the 15 % Ethnic German Majority in this country to lead the Genocide against the Iraqi people in the name of land (Palestine), Oil, and ostensibly protecting the Holy land of Israel (this last one is where the Neocon Jews really did some great salesmanship in selling this argument to the dumb Christian Americans who said, Yep!

Christianity is growing more rapidly than any other faith, but the vast majority of believers will be neither white nor European nor Euro - American.

What is the real ignorance among African Americans is that the majority of their children are born out of wedlock, significant numbers of their men have taken a particular liking to prison, if white women have had to deal with the degree of lack of care and sympathy that black men have given to their responsibilities — they'd be angry too.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

What if our children were accustomed to seeing black pastors of majority white churches, and vice-versa?

the majority of Obama's votes came from white people not black people so your assertion is compelte lie.

In 50 years African Americans are slave of white people and now we have African American president... and I am so happy for that... you will see a day coming may be in 100 years more or less Americans will accept Islam and will become a Muslim majority country... the way Americans are reverting to Islam...

Naomi, thats weird, I met a lot of Jews both in the US and Israel the vast majority of them were White (Caucasian), so what you are really saying is you white (Europeans) have almost annihilated whites (Europeans) many times, do I have that rWhite (Caucasian), so what you are really saying is you white (Europeans) have almost annihilated whites (Europeans) many times, do I have that rwhite (Europeans) have almost annihilated whites (Europeans) many times, do I have that right?

The vast majority of WHITE jews (ie Neocons) in this country support the War and seem very callous about what is being done to the Iraqi people...

Justin, as much as this would be a completely black & white, rational decision for you on the subject, the majority of humanity floats in a gray area on this, drifting back and forth between atheism and strong spiritual beliefs (usually rooted in the culture they were raised in).

There's not that much of a distinction... Jewish Neocons and Christian Neocons (ie the 15 % German Ethnic majority in this country and all of the other White people who are following them hook line and sinker) are on the same team and have waged a war TOGETHER against the Arabs.

The world is black and white and anything else is seen as soft... I can tell you for a fact that he is viewed positively by a large majority of scheme people who find his views odd but like the fact he sticks up for himself against the posh establishment.»

According to Young, Whitehead's understanding of consciousness seems extrapolated from the cultural norms of «the white majority social group.»

In fact, substantial majorities of white Protestants (76 %), black Protestants (65 %) and white Catholics (63 %) say the ruling should not be over turned, the survey found.

It seems that, in the midst of black Christian outcry in 2013, the majority of white Christians pressed the snooze button on racial justice, sleepwalking into their churches where an individualistic gospel that doesn't call them to say or do anything about racial injustice is preached, where white culture, rather than Christ, reigns supreme, and where the problems and perspectives of black people are ignored.