Sentences with phrase «perceptions about black people»

The film is a sly feature that combines horror, satire and sociology as it jabs at race relations and perceptions about black people in the United States.

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Musser: I think the scientific community and science journalist [s] bear a little bit of [the] responsibility for that perception among the public because we always talk about the LHC as recreating conditions not seen since the big bang, and you would therefore think if there hasn't been an energy level like that seen since the big bang, then all the phenomenon of the big bang might be unleashed upon us; these black holes, possibly being one, because people do talk about black holes having been created in the early universe.

I do this so that the person viewing the piece doesn't get confused that the piece may be about black life, or cultural identity, but instead that the piece is about others» perception of the Other, and how that might obviously have a negative impact on a community and on the individual that is being portrayed in the stereotype.

This vice president, who did not want his name to appear in print, was deeply concerned about coal's future and expressed frustration with environmental attacks on coal, suggesting that it was all a problem of perception: «People don't like coal because it's black,» he told me.

In my view, these advancements are based on tolerance, not on totally removing the prejudiced policies, practices, perceptions, stigma, stereotypes and ideas about people who are black that continue to thrive in society, law schools and law firms.