Sentences with phrase «painful legacy of»

To make this option a reality, however, local communities and education leaders will have to overcome the painful legacy of tracking.

For Police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly Indians, which frequently includes his own alcoholic brother, Mogie.

Granted, there will still be many divorces brought about by the flawed decisions of individuals, giving witness to the continuing ingenuity of human sin, and creating a painful legacy of injury and evil.

It is as though those shaping the domestic agenda of the government do not see the explicitly racial character of this problem, as if they do not understand the historical experiences that link, symbolically and sociologically, the current urban underclass to our long, painful legacy of racial trauma.

He's uneasy; he's troubled by painful legacies of his own (his father's suicide, his father - in - law's dementia).

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Christians today deplore the persecution of Jews and the attacks on Muslims, both of which have left a painful legacy that only now members of the three faiths are starting to address.

Speaking to an audience of party activists here, O'Malley called the police - custody death of Freddie Gray part of «a painful history in our country, a legacy that we continue to work on and work through and seek to overcome every day.»

LaRose is the fifteenth novel in Erdrich's magnificent North Dakota cycle about the painful and proud legacy and intricately entangled relationships among Native Americans, whites, and people of mixed heritage, a brilliantly imagined and constructed saga of empathy, elegy, spirituality, resilience, wit, wonder, and hope that will stand as a defining master work of American literature for generations to come.

The works, which are inventive and painful but also satirical and humorous, were selected for the exhibition to display the range of approaches Walker uses to explore the legacy of slavery.

Its histories of war, conquest and slavery are difficult and painful to address but its legacy is everywhere and affects us all.