Sentences with phrase «past racial injustice»

I knew of experiments such as the Tuskegee study, but like many of my classmates, I only thought of it as a government conspiracy or a sign of past racial injustice.

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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.

The album digs below the surface of racial injustice in America, and examines issues like gentrification, shameful parts of America's past, the use of racial slurs and more.

Players have been speaking out about racial injustice and advocating for social change for at least the past 15 months, if not longer.

As in Devil in the Grove, his previous exposé of the corruption and racial injustice carried out by the Lake County Sheriff's Department, King's exhaustive reporting details the frightening chokehold white supremacists had over a Florida agricultural town in the very recent past.

By bridging the past and present, With Drawn Arms will resonate powerfully in the current moment of reckoning with racial injustice in America.