Sentences with phrase «over racial inequality»
Why did Birmingham matter, while decades of intensifying discord over racial inequality in the South did not?
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Schultz said that Starbucks hadn't paid enough attention to the issue of racial inequality; the board agreed, but differed over how best to approach the topic more broadly.
This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.
Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution did NOT attempt to create a state with equality as many think).
On the eve of another Sunday of professional football, Trump once again stoked the controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racial inequality, proclaiming on Twitter that he wants them to stand.
The pardon plan also comes amid a national debate over reducing sentences for nonviolent offenders, in part because of the cost of mass incarceration and concerns about racial inequality in the criminal justice system.
Linked with a long history of religious and ethnic intolerance, racial and social inequality, and severe national tensions, diversity has undoubtedly bred hatred, prejudice, discrimination, and violence in some people over the course of history, says Senior Lecturer Todd Pittinsky in his new book, Us Plus Them.
Lost in the recent fight over TV ads about racial inequality in New York City schools is another sort of inequality — that kids in charter schools only receive a fraction of the funding that all other public school children receive.
(a title borrowed from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass) conveys how artists have addressed colonialism, environmentalism and racial inequality over the years, and evokes the natural landscape of the United States, imperialism and some of the more infamous aspects of American culture.
Why: Since the 1980s, our favorite gorilla mask - wearing feminist art collective has been raising a much - needed ruckus over the gender and racial inequality in the art world.
This data analysis compares the rise of income inequality, as well as racial inequality, over a same time frame as the rise in life expectancy inequality.