Sentences with phrase «racial divisions»

What's worse is that characters that I genuinely enjoyed in the first book are twisted so that they fit in to said racial divisions for story purposes.
Despite the many failures of white - majority churches to take action in this area, the gospel has tremendous resources for seeking justice and peace across racial divisions.
Among potential Democratic primary voters, racial divisions also play a role.
Even after things settled down, a sharp racial division was carved between the predominantly minority schools in central cities and the overwhelmingly white schools in suburban areas.
His work simultaneously tries to reconcile his own Southern Christian upbringing and the tumultuous racial politics of 60s with the more progressive but better concealed racial divisions of today.
The Tories played the politics of racial division in 1964.
The 1980s was a time of racial division, economic inequality and civil unrest in Britain.
Daniels claims that's not the case, and he has privately blamed some of his troubles with the Reds on racial divisions within the clubhouse.
January's DPI report would seem to confirm parts of a key 2015 study co-authored by Helen Ladd, a Duke University professor of public policy, who detailed growing racial divisions in North Carolina's charter sector.
The ad, shared on Facebook at least 29,000 times, sought to exploit racial divisions by pointing out the Black Panthers were forced to disband but not the Ku Klux Klan.
Racial divisions remain not only on Sunday mornings but also in how we see one another, how we vote, and how / whether we care for one another.
Gurley's case also exposed deep racial divisions among New Yorkers unhappy with the criminal justice system.
The education commissioner issued the decision in a week where racial divisions have been highlighted in the U.S..
Rampling's character, known only as Matron, gives a speech to the class about how the West is weak, tearing itself apart with racial divisions and social media obsessions, and how it's Russia's time to step in and assert itself as the ultimate world power.
No film moved the conversation this year more than Peele's unsettling directorial debut «Get Out,» which examined racial divisions in America.
Much of the rest of the film feels forced — from the preachy animated prologue, to obvious, basic themes about racial division, tension and hatred.
Part of reconciling racial divisions is acknowledging the ways we've concealed who we are as a nation.
Racial divisions narrow the range of each person's permissible activities, condemning him to patterns of life prescribed by race customs.
Racial divisions thus constitute a caste organization of society, with no possibility of mobility from one race to another.
It seems inexcusable that Herberg did not really acknowledge the deepening racial divisions in American society.
(As one of the book's great blind spots, Herberg did not spend much time considering racial divisions in America, calling them an «anomaly of considerable importance» to his general scheme.)
When St Paul proclaimed that there is «neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus» (Galatians 3:28), he would have expected his words to apply to modern racial division.
In answering, there are possibly two distinct groups to consider - those persons who consider racism and live in Europe and North America, but also those who live in regions where white - related racism may not be seen as «the big racial division», and who may have entirely different frameworks (which are less visible in Europe and North America) for their understandings.
She added the incumbent stooped to «fomenting racial divisions and tensions», adding: «He did it because he feared if he didn't he would lose.»
Trump's surprise rise to become the GOP presidential nominee, built largely on a willingness to openly criticize minority groups and tap into long - simmering racial divisions, has reenergized white supremacist groups and drawn them into mainstream American politics like nothing seen in decades.
wrote Engel, who noted Paladino's «similarly shameful history of spreading racially offensive materials and enflaming racial divisions
Since racial division is the most important cleavage in American politics, overlaying and deepening the ideological and Republican - Democrat partisan dichotomy, we can expect much more action around the persistence of racial inequality in America.
«Continued research is necessary to determine if and how congregations are capable of helping solve longstanding racial divisions in society.»
There were, as usual, movies about fractious racial divisions, including «Mudbound,» Dee Rees» symphonic, superbly acted drama about two Mississippi families — one white, one black — struggling to survive in the shadow of World War II.
Finding ways to heal racial division is the work of the President's Initiative on Race and all of us can make a positive contribution.
A fledgling education movement emerged in the 1960s to confront the largely racial divisions that existed across the country.
Questions being raised by Ireland's immigrant population and those who do not identify with Catholicism are undeniably important (and can certainly be paralleled to racial divisions here in the States).
During a time of so much racial division and violence in the world, this campaign does so much more than promote Danish company Momondo.
Moving on, I was unnecessarily braced for controversy as I approached the one - room special installation of 14 works curated by the artist Rashid Johnson, whose own work hews closely to debates about the painfully ineradicable racial division in the country.
One of Bounds» articles criticized «race - think» in which groups of «multicultural demagogues» create racial divisions at Stanford University.
And both are devoted to putting America's racial divisions behind us, even if they would disagree on the mechanism.
Educators report that this behavior, inspired by the words of the president - elect, have exacerbated already existing class and racial divisions within schools.
Local businessmen complain of a chronic brain drain due to growing racial divisions.
But no matter your view, says Cheek, racial division remains the elephant in the room.
It remains an unsettled question, however, whether deep racial divisions can be transcended in this way.
The study as a whole offered proof that multiracial ancestry is commonplace, even in a part of the country where racial divisions have historically been deep.
We must believe that Atticus made a difference by defending an African - American in a time laden with racial divisions.
In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) to examine racial division and disparities in the United States.
Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.
Shaw has occupied the most prestigious podiums in the country while being painfully aware of the sorrow, tragedy and racial divisions in our society.
To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division.
«To vote Republican out of party loyalty alone would be to endorse a candidacy that I believe has exploited anger, grievance, xenophobia and racial division,» Whitman said in a statement.
Though his position looks secure, low oil prices and racial divisions will test efforts to repair his legacy.
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