Not exact matches
Perhaps this explains why recent polling indicates that younger liberals are less likely than older liberals to think we need to
do more to promote
racial equality.
But fortunately your kind are losing the battle just as surely as you
did over
racial and gender
equality.
It has provided grounds for the recognition of
racial equality — a recognition of the dignity of human nature as such — but it has
done much more, and indeed, much less.
Leaders who *
do * affirm gender
equality and
racial diversity need to stop agreeing to speak at places which major in marginalization and pretend to represent the Body at large.
There is, however, another power in Eastern Europe that apparently
does desire world domination and with great skill manipulates the longings of these people for
racial equality, economic subsistence, and political freedom.
Only 6 % of BME teachers feel schools and colleges
do enough to promote
racial equality, a conference organised by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has heard.
Actually, to the opposite, many regimes explicitly derive their legitimacy from being committed to maintaining a social system that ensures inequality, e.g. Apartheid South Africa, the Confederate State of America (
racial inequality), and Soviet Russia (in this case, the ruling proletariat class ruling over all other classes; the Russian Revolution
did NOT attempt to create a state with
equality as many think).
We know
racial justice is a worker issue, that
racial equality is a union goal: we can not win at work when race divides us, nor
does fairness truly exist when some of us are profiled at home, targeted on the streets, and treated unequally in the courts.
In an interview with Indiewire, the filmmaker was direct about the political implications: «You can get on your soapbox, you can push your political agenda or your religious agenda, against gay marriage, against
racial equality, but you can't argue about these people in their home...
Equality as a concept isn't something I think we ever achieve, it's something we make progress toward, and hope that we don't slip back and lose any of it.
Closing the black - white test score gap would probably
do more to promote
racial equality in the United States than any other strategy now under serious discussion.
«We are in an era when many people say they are committed to
racial equality but don't see their own participation in
racial inequality,» said HGSE Associate Professor Mica Pollock.
As scholars Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips write, «Reducing the black - white test score gap would
do more to promote
racial equality than any other strategy that commands broad political support.»
But just as the presence of a black president in the White House hasn't ushered in an era of
racial comity in America, Obama's cameo in the Biennial doesn't mean that the art world is a place of utopian
equality.
When I worked on the exhibition «Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties» [at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014], people were shocked to find that artists like Frank Stella and Jim Dine had
done work that was political, that sold in galleries to support
racial equality.
As employment experts, they all knew that, at her last outing on
equality, she had pretty well alleged exactly that, concluding: «So
do we need to revive the argument for some special provision, akin to that in Northern Ireland, to enable the appointing commissions to take
racial or gender balance into account when making their appointments?
This
did not amount to a failure to have due regard to the statutory need to promote, for example,
equality of opportunity between different
racial groups.
What this means is that the government, in line with international human rights definitions, accepts that
racial equality is not always achieved merely by treating individuals or groups of particular ethnic origin the same as those who
do not originate from that background.
What changes
do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples feel are required to achieve non-discrimination and
racial equality?