• The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or
On the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King.
Not exact matches
I write these words
on April 15, 2018 - exactly 71 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending a long period
of segregation in Major League Baseball.
Corrections officials in Utah, which in 2015 held 14 percent
of its inmates in
segregation, told researchers they've since overhauled their policies
on solitary confinement.
«The days
of segregation and discrimination marked by «Whites Only» signs
on shop doors, water fountains and restrooms must remain deep in our past,» Cook wrote recently in the Washington Post.
For example, Facebook defines hate speech as a direct attack — dehumanizing speech, statements
of inferiority or calls for exclusion or
segregation —
on people from protected groups.
It is a symptom
of the
segregation they desire to impose
on women.
They are compelled to live in
segregation from the «upper» castes and to use different water sources
on account
of their «polluting» influence; their educational and career opportunities are often greatly limited by their caste.
Historically, unless they could «pass» as white, they were victims
of segregation based
on that heritage.
... What has happened over time is that people were forced to believe in the one
of the Abrahamic faiths through Holy wars, torture, Crusades and Inquisitions, and as people practiced this chosen people ideology, whether Christian, Catholic, Jew or Muslim, which was built
on the principle
of remaining segregated from the un-chosen, their faith urged them to remain segregated, where they lived and never to marry anyone outside their faith... and even in death there is a history
of segregation which to this day continues, try having a non Jewish person buried in Jewish cemetery.
Ragansteve, And in those hundred years, we have seen women obtain the vote, the end
of child labor, the end
of Jim Crow laws, civil rights for blacks, the end
of segregation, the end
of the prohibition
of mixed race marriages, and the list goes
on and
on.
There are plenty
of rude comments from atheists
on here, but none surpass those
of the Christian dimwit
on here advocating
segregation of gays.
Can I then say that I have no special responsibility to help overcome the consequences
of the slavery and
segregation imposed
on Blacks by my family and community?
Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing
of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks
on state
segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be
of assistance.
If the South is open to the charge (in a James Sellers phrase)
of having squandered most
of its psychic energy
on the anachronism
of segregation (and slavery before that), the North may be accused
of having misdirected many
of its attitudes toward the benightedness and inferiority
of southerners and southern ways.
The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the
segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind
of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless
of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments
on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter
of 3000 Jews, read it
theres much more good in the world to be done, so instead rubberstamping
segregation or hate
of any kind... I have «faith» that somewhere up
on an imaginary cloud jesus is shaking his head and looking at his watch.
In his recent memoir, he describes how blacks relied
on music and faith to deal with the cruelty
of segregation.
Well to believe that the
segregation on Sunday between Christian Churches does not have any underlying tones
of racism is ludicrous.
Most
of them were not radicals
on gender relations or household arrangements, and they most certainly did not establish
segregation (it had started well before them and was in any case not something peculiar to them).
«For Judaism to insist rigorously
on aloofness,
on segregation,
on maintaining itself as a self - enclosed community, is to withhold its witness from the general community, proclaimed an editorial
of December 20, 1939.
For an in - depth discussion
of «voluntary» public school
segregation and attempts to overcome it or reinforce it, listen to the This American Life podcast episodes
on school
segregation — «The Problem We All Live With» in two parts.
And, after the white South African government enacted the 1913 Natives Land Act establishing the principle
of territorial
segregation based
on race, indigenous black independent churches rose up in often violent protest.
Segregation per se has a damaging effect
on the self - esteem and therefore the mental health
of those segregated.
Olgetree however, who opposes the church's current position
on gays, likened the rule to the church's former doctrinal support
of slavery and
segregation, saying, «I don't think we can bring about change without more
of us stepping forward boldly»...
One can imagine few more wrong headed, implausible and self - defeating strategies than for the several million Muslims in America to join with alienated blacks in blaming their problems
on the consequences
of slavery and
segregation.
And the effort to abolish slavery and end
segregation in our country depended not only
on Lockean calculation
of rights but
on what can only be called religious devotion.
It was when modern Western imperialism began to explore and exploit the colored peoples
of Africa, Asia and America that the beginning
of segregation and discrimination based
on color and race was initiated.»
In the throes
of the civil - rights movement, however, Criswell went through a period
of soul searching and came to the conclusion that racial
segregation could not be defended
on biblical principles.
The goal was lessons
on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention
of passing along the ways
of racial
segregation that marked that place in time.
Forbidden by
segregation to compete in an official meet with the state's black champ — a guy everybody called Cornelius Mitchell, who years later would become the first African - American signed by the Washington Redskins, a future Hall
of Fame flanker known as Bobby Mitchell — the two boys from Hot Springs met
on a track that had gone to seed and went head - to - head in a series
of informal races.
Portending a shift in the balance
of power in college sports, the Southeastern Conference voids its gentleman's agreement
on segregation while other southern schools step up their recruiting
of Negroes
Strengthening and widening the lines
of segregation on the lower concourse walkway by creating higher barriers and a 10 - metre wide sterile area.
This will be achieved by widening the
segregation line
on both sides
of the lower tier.
The Fox Valley Park District provides programs, activities and facilities without discrimination or
segregation on the grounds
of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
The number
of segregations on the physical server varies based
on the requirements
of each client.
The Childcare Strategy depends
on a resolution
of the gender
segregation problem.
Speaking in support
of the amendment, Baroness Massey said that «my chief concern is the fostering
of segregation in schools
on the basis
of religion... I believe that all schools should include and educate all pupils together so that they can learn from each other instead
of being segregated
on religious and other grounds.»
On religious
segregation in Northern Ireland schools: «In Northern Ireland
segregation of schools by religion persists.
Protesters hit back at Universities UK last night after it emerged its guidance notes for external speakers said organisers should allow the
segregation of students
on the basis
of gender.
He is a planner, geographer and urbanist, and his research focuses
on the contemporary restructuring and retrofitting
of urban regions, with a particular emphasis
on the changing dynamics
of race, class and
segregation across space and place.
On the housing
segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification
of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering
of Shirley Porter.
That is the story
of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story
of generations
of people who felt the lash
of bondage, the shame
of servitude, the sting
of segregation, but who kept
on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.
On its website the Alliance party describes its aims as being «to build a Northern Irish society devoid
of segregation, sectarianism and prejudice where everyone - Catholic or Protestant, black or white, local or immigrant, rich or poor, young or old - can live their live the way they want, free from fear».
New York City can do much more to address deep
segregation in its public schools, such as using more magnet grants to attract a diverse group
of parents to segregated schools or moving ahead with an admissions plan aimed at lowering
segregation on the Lower East Side, according to a new report.
She has reported
on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial
segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method
of testing for lead in water in schools.
Even where schools do legally discriminate
on religious grounds, this can lead to ethnic, socio - economic and religious
segregation of pupils in practice and create wider problems for social cohesion and equality.
However, evidence from a range
of sources released in recent months has been overwhelming in its condemnation
of the move, revealing that removing the so - called 50 % cap
on religious selection would not only lead to increased levels
of segregation in schools and communities, but also damage social mobility and reduce the access
of parents to their local schools.
Ministers may be reconsidering controversial proposals to allow new state - funded religious schools to become fully segregated along religious lines, according to Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman, who has stated that «admission 100 %
on faith leads to increased levels
of segregation within communities».
But these findings are stark and a timely reminder
of the racially segregating effects
of religious schools, the division
of communities that ensues, and that an expansion
of such «faith» schools will only lead to racial
segregation in state schools
on a scale we have never seen before in this country.
«I believe that an increase in pupil
segregation on the basis
of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years
of progressive education reform.»