Sentences with phrase «racial prejudice»

Most people believe that they are largely free of racial prejudice.

By the same token, concern for education and recognition of its power to effect changes in human personality are incompatible with racial prejudice and help to diminish bias.

I was happy to discover its engaging characters and its deeper conversation about racial prejudice and issues of privilege.

We won the battle over racial bigotry and today those who use the bible to promote racial prejudice are very much in the minority with little power to influence public policy.

If you can't acknowledge the fact that someone of colour experiences racial prejudice, then you shouldn't date them.

These resources aim to address racial prejudice while promoting and encouraging respect for cultural diversity.

We know that we must address the realities of racial prejudice — but in a room full of junior high kids?

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britainover the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

I don't believe these people are inherently racist, but they don't consider race to be an issue; they are the group of people who want to withhold judgment in this case [in claiming Zimmerman's actions were motivated by racial prejudice].

Known for its use probing social attitudes such as racial prejudice, the IAT can also assess «cross-modal correspondences.»

Any individual who has experienced racial discrimination knows that acts of racism have real and lasting impact, and for more than 40 years the Racial Discrimination Act has been helping protect people from racial prejudice,» Mr Mohamed continued.

It is focussed on encouraging respect for cultural diversity and tackling racial prejudice in early childhood settings.

Over at the BFI, Nathalie Morris recounts the trailblazing career of singer, actor, athlete, and activist Paul Robeson, «a true renaissance man who overcame racial prejudice to become one of the biggest stars of his time.»

But critics point to his voting record and the causes he has championed in the Senate to claim that Sessions harbors racial prejudice: He is one of the Senate's most hard - line anti-immigration lawmakers, and he has opposed the Voting Rights Act.

To this day the national and racial prejudices which disgrace Christendom are due to the failure of Christians to care so supremely for personality that no boundaries can confine their sense of its value.

Policemen show racial prejudices.

The conference, which is the largest BME teachers» conference in Europe, heard concerns about discrimination and the failure of schools to take racial prejudice seriously.

Octavia Spencer also stars in The Help, a tale of racial prejudice faced by black domestics.

Research finds that school diversity reduces racial prejudice and improves academic attainment, which, in turn, is tied to higher voter participation.

This informative introduction to the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratrooper unit, is enhanced by well - chosen quotes and excellent photos that also document racial prejudice on the home front.

At a time when racial prejudice was even more overt than in our own age, it took great courage for Black artists to stand up and honestly portray their lot in America.

While we can not expect rational persuasion alone to eliminate race bias, it may be of considerable assistance in the following ways: it can expose the falsehoods upon which most racial prejudice rests, it can demonstrate the evil social and psychological consequences of racial discrimination, it can show the incompatibility of discriminatory policies with the known facts of human inheritance and development, and it can suggest means for eliminating the sources and effects of racial bias.

While racial prejudice still exists in 2014, most people are not overt racists and would not knowingly discriminate against anyone.

A letter to the editor by Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane, published the next day, delivered a similar rebuttal: he argued that «racism is as much about impact as it is about intention», and highlighted that malice, hatred or doctrinal commitment aren't necessarily requirements for racial prejudice or discrimination.

Hitler's pitiless racial prejudice and arrogance, and communism's atheism, its tyrannical suppression of human dignity and freedom, are not new.

I suppose you would have said those who stood up to the bigotry in the church over racial prejudice were also just «quarreling».

In general, editors denounced racial prejudice and spoke of the equality of women, but reflected the narrowness of their cultural attitudes more than they themselves recognized in the jokes they published and in the phrasing of their editorials.

Racial prejudice played a significant role, and the pundits at The Crimson were limited and obtuse in their responses to our concerns.

And while racial prejudice creates the most obvious form of discrimination, a Christian conscience must be on guard also against economic injustices caused or perpetuated by family status, social stratification, political «pull,» or even by church connections.

This not only excludes racial prejudice and excessive nationalism, which can lead to the horrors of so called «ethnic cleansing», but makes it natural and logical for the Church to encourage the political initiatives that bring humanity together as an ever closer community of nations on earth.

Major universities (for example, Dartmouth and the Universities of Michigan and Massachusetts, all of which have been the scene of recent demonstrations and violence) are struggling with overt examples of racial prejudice among their students, whose education has stressed success for oneself and tolerance of others.

If only the heart in South Africa could be governed for a year or two by the national palate, there would be no apartheid or racial prejudice left in the land, because our cooking is the best advertisement the world could possibly offer for a multi-racial society, free of religious, racial, and other forms of discrimination.»

For example, when people perceive jobs or money as scarce, they are more likely to express racial prejudice, sexism, or nationalism.

When Lehrer asked him whether Schulkin evinced racial prejudice given that he singled out African - American, Latino and Asian neighborhoods, de Blasio said he would not weigh in on «what's going on in his soul,» calling his professional role the main issue.

Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer said he was disgusted that white nationalists had come to his town — and blamed Trump for inflaming racial prejudices.

In her debut An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon uses the generation ship setting to craft a challenging narrative of inescapable racial prejudice.

An important subplot about a murder takes a back seat to coming - of - age sexual awakenings, aggressively cloaked homosexuality, and routine racial prejudice, all under the guise of Daniels» busy camera.

Denzel Washington also stars in Remember the Titans, another film about conquering racial prejudice.

Sirk himself explored racial prejudice during the»50s in «Imitation of Life,» his finest film, but homosexuality was a subject that could only be hinted at in that heavily censored era.

Can anything be done to change racial prejudice?

Delving into resonant issues surrounding racial prejudice and injustice, the film is a serious dark horse contender, having already won the top prize at the Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye Honors.

Racial prejudice defied by heartfelt romance!

Eighth grader Jordan, who transferred from a school where racial prejudice was a problem she ran into, says she was «shocked when I came here» to see the students working together.

As with ending racial prejudices, it takes advocates of all skin colors to disrupt the status quo.

While vulnerable to being returned to slavery or being lynched in the south, escapees were also forced to stay underground in the north because of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and because racial prejudice was not absent there either.