Sentences with phrase «predudice against people of color»

These users have been known for spouting tweets and opinions against people of color.
«The grand jury's decision does not negate the fact that Michael Brown's tragic death is part of an alarming national trend of officers using excessive force against people of color, often during routine encounters.
In June 1948, it resolved not to hold any events at a facility discriminating against people of color.
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.
Or when Colin Kaepernick and other NFL athletes took a knee during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against people of color.
What other country has used nuclear warfare against another people of color and it's nation?
If Nazi's / white supremasist hold a rally against people of color and various religions does that give anybody who is not part of that group to attack the Nazi's / white supremasists.
his attitude reminds me of some of my fellow Americans who, after our country has spent hundreds of years either enslaving or discriminating against people of color, don't want to hear about racism anymore.
But the odds are very clearly stacked against people of color.
Employment and housing are but two examples (and I only scratched at the surface), but they are indicative of a huge problem — the everyday systems (often invisible) that determine enormously important parts of our lives are stacked against people of color.
The deadly use of force against people of color has been a near - weekly occurrence in America, sparking a decade of protest, city - by - city.
«And he's always been a vocal opponent of discrimination of any kind, whether it's against people of color, women, gays, lesbians, and transgender people, immigrants, seniors or people with disabilities.»
Dealbreaker.com reported Monday he's used such comparisons in the past — one of his previous Facebook posts in 2016 said that the teachers» union «has done more to perpetuate poverty and discrimination against people of color than the KKK.»
The use of excessive and lethal police force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide and we must recommit ourselves to building a more just city and society where all people, regardless of color, are treated equally by law enforcement.
When a Staten Island grand jury refused to return a criminal indictment of an officer in the death of Eric Garner, she issued a press release declaring «the use of excessive and lethal force against people of color is a persistent problem nationwide.»
Mr. Loeb urged that people «take up the fight against the teachers union, the single biggest force standing in the way of quality education and an organization that has done more to perpetuate poverty and discrimination against people of color than the K.K.K.»
The Jews of Color Caucus, along with hundreds of neighbors and advocacy groups, held an action and vigil in support of Black Lives Matter to demand an end to police violence against people of color and the passage of the Right to Know Act.
South Seattle - based journalist Reagan Jackson may have said it best in the title to her article, «Vitriol against People of Color Yoga Shows Exactly Why Its Necessary.»
All for a good arrest record, which not only serves to line the county coffers via federal funds, but keeps the D.A.'s «tough on crime» credo in the spotlight - and, ugliest of all, satisfies his predudice against people of color.
With decent poise, Boseman plays a younger Marshall, the NAACP's top lawyer who travels the country whenever there is an unjust incrimination against people of color.
He also challenges his values: If Black Panther is about this warrior - king coming to terms with his responsibilities to the rest of the world, then it takes the extreme version of that imperative presented by Killmonger — a war hawk's hate - fueled, yet sympathetic scheme to avenge a history of violence against people of color — to help T'Challa reach his epiphany.
It's not a perfect film by any stretch, and one area where I certainly agree with detractors is how problems, particularly the treatment of rape victims and police brutality against people of color, are treated in the abstract.
When the trials for crimes against the poor, against people of color, and against public education are held, the current administration will have to be judged for its harsh policies.
«With recurring events such as police brutality against people of color, the mistreatment of Native Americans, and of course, the election my art has taken a political turn,» she wrote.
Dread Scott reprised a provocative work, a flag drawing attention to police violence against people of color.
The Bureau has collaborated with organizations such as Visual AIDS and Fire Island Artist Residency, as well as with veterans of The Lesbian Avengers activist group and activists fighting police violence against people of color to bring you provocative and inspiring exhibitions year round.
series outside of the context of police brutality inflicted against people of color.
Recent films, such as Crow Requiem and The Way Out Is the Way To, move between Smith's active study of multiple sources and archives (avant - garde, African - American histories and improvisational music), and Smith's personal and political response to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state.
«It's only fitting that the presumptive nominee is a bombastic bigot who has called immigrants «rapists,» said he would punish women for having an abortion, repeatedly insults women, and has incited violence against people of color at his rallies.

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The lawsuit filed by Ingrid Avendano, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who described themselves as Latina software engineers, says that Uber's compensation and other practices discriminate against women and people of color.
And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.
It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Three Latina software engineers are suing Uber for allegedly discriminating against women and people of color.
In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.
Was it the next 80 years of discrimination against women and minorities or banning people of different skin colors from marrying?
Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.
People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, AmishPeople of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amishpeople of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..
The same ideas are advanced in the U.S.A. Pastor Albert Cleage writes: «Jesus was the colored leader of a colored people carrying on a national struggle against a white people....
After all, you are part of a system that allows you to walk into stores where you are not followed, where you get to go for a bank loan and your skin does not count against you, where you don't need to engage in «the talk» that black people and people of color must tell their children.
I feel that most white people in the USA who claim to be very religious are very racially prejudiced against anyone considered of «COLOR» which includes blacks, hispanice etc..
In Forgive Us, authors Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson provide historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christianity's complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.
Instead of telling people that their interpretation is wrong, you can remind them that other religious texts have been used in the past to justify atudes and laws that are recognized today as morally wrong and unjust — such as discrimination against women, people of color and religious minorities.
There is absolutely no moral equvalence between people who were discrimminated against purely for the color of their skin and h.o.m.o.s.exuals who are demanding special rights because they are unable to control their immoral behavior.
Not that I am now a stranger, but that I was reared a stranger, because now I feel my «own people» are black and brown and all the people of color, and all those Christian gays and lesbians who struggle for acceptance — all those who know what it means to be discriminated against because of who they are, where they were born, or how much money or education they have.
anger at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people
Sobbing for the thousands of hate crimes committed against immigrants, women, Muslims, and people of color since Trump was elected; for the inevitable incursions into women's rights; for the mass deportation of Latino immigrants; for the likely return of a «law & order» police state that penalizes men simply for having black or brown skin; and, for the fact that young girls may be indoctrinated to think that their worth is determined solely by their looks.
Kaepernick began a movement in the NFL during the 2016 preseason when he began to sit and later kneeled during the national anthem as a way to show support for people of color who are being oppressed in the United States, and to take a stand against police brutality.
people of color were, for generations, discriminated against in the housing market.
Statement is baffling and is in fact the very thing that guys like cap and others are fighting against the truth is Colin didn't orignaly kneel during the anthem he sat on his bench he was then approached by vets who asked why he was sitting and asked him to do something else because sitting was disprectful it was those army vets who told cap to kneel because it shows your fighting against something and not just sitting to sit they told him it would be a better look and it's funny how people turn around and say he is disrespecting the very people who told him what to do and how to do it to get his message across this is the ignorance of America and everything cap fights against you judge a man by the color of his skin and his upbringing and not the content of his character you don't know anything about cap yet you pull this entire story out your ass go sit down clown
Yet people of color leading national liberations, Gandhi, Mandela, and Sun Yet - Sen appealed to it, against empire and racism.
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