Sentences with phrase «race relations here»

Even though Beatty's novel is uniquely American, steeped in the painful history and ongoing discord that characterize race relations here, perhaps this universality is part of what the Man Booker Prize judges recognized and rightly rewarded.

Tellingly, race relations here caused problems for Labour in the last election too, when it was claimed a raid on 25 suspected illegal immigrants on a council estate inundated by Africans had been postponed to avoid embarrassing Tony Blair.

«For weeks I have watched the tone of Andrew Cuomo's rhetoric become increasingly disturbing, particularly as it relates to race relations here in New York.

«Even as we celebrate the life and achievements of Dr. King, New Yorkers» feelings about the state of race relations here are more negative today than they have been for the last several years,» said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said.

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What matters to us here is that these virtues provide a general definition of civility — of the stance of a person who, as far as possible, is deliberately and carefully related (attentively and openly, veraciously and responsibly) to all members of the human race, so far as they are encountered in one's life, yet makes these relations the substance of a resolutely critical and independent personality.

What we have is some outrageous politically - motivated FALSE CHARGES HERE - not meant to improve any race relations at all - just to score cheap political points.

There is clearly a big moral message in here about acceptance, and more importantly, mixed race relations it seems.

There's room for a range of genres here: this is where we get As I Descended (2016), Robin Talley's modern - day boarding - school update of Macbeth with an LGBTQ slant, and Cat Winters» The Steep and Thorny Way, a loose retelling of Hamlet, which deals with race relations in Prohibition - era Oregon.