Sentences with phrase «racist policies in»

As the discussion of Paul Vallas's time in Chicago continued nationally, it became clear that our previous publications about Vallas's racist policies in Chicago had not been read by many, here or elsewhere, so after talking with the man who wrote the analysis below, we've decided to — again — reprint as what may become one of several stories about the reactionary and racist career of Paul Vallas and the myths of the «Vallas method.»

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Breitbart is known for supporting what some refer to as the «alt right» movement in the United States, a loose affiliation of politically conservative groups that include overtly racist organizations such as Richard Spencer's National Policy Institute, which advocates for something it calls «white nationalism.»
But it represents a rising wave of overtly racist political action in the U.S., with scheduled speeches from alt - right leaders including National Policy Institute head Richard Spencer.
Naspers is a Cape Town - based company with a dark history as the publishing house that for a long time supported South Africa's racist National Party and its Apartheid policy (Naspers has since apologized for its role in that era).
In addition to demanding a $ 15 minimum wage and union rights, the campaign said it will keep up «unrelenting opposition» to efforts to «block wage increases, gut workers» rights or health care, deport immigrants or support racism or racist policies
Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.
Questioning policies of Israel does not make one anti-semitic, just as questioning Obama's policies does not make one a racist when race is not brought up in the subject, however many Jews call out anti-Semitism where there is none.
All of it points to an appallingly racist past that has left a racist legacy that manifests itself in policies and systems that disadvantage and oppress specific people groups.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation, executive policy, and judicial expansion mobilized the power of the state to effectively crush racist practices, especially in the South.
«Please note that, at its meeting in May 2017, the FIFA Council emphasised that member associations and referees should be ready to adopt a strict policy to deal with incidents of racist nature.»
Also this is a ridiculous answer to paint is as partisan... unless your point is that, in general, republican policies are racist to begin with — which is probably not your intent.
Stern notes that these people are not «anti-zionists» but rather object to the way they perceive that Zionism (as they understand it) is used to justify expansionist policies in Israel, displace indigenous people, and racist propaganda from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To be frank his views made what should have been an easy decision into a difficult one.I don't trust Smith and will back Jeremy again but I am concerned.Having sensible views on immigration and defence is ethical and doesn't turn me into a raging right winger or closet racist and is probably in line with what most potential Labour voters want.I'd like to think that more will join our party and that Corbyn will continue democratizing it, giving us the opportunity to shape policy ourselves.
For example, the Israeli West Bank Barrier is called Geder Ha «hafrada, it means separation fence; and separation as a word is synonymous with segregation and this usefully points to another historical situation that casts some light here: the racist segregation policies of the USA concerning their black minority, particularly in the Deep South before they began to be dismantled during the era of the Civil Rights struggle under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luthor King.
Apartheid is a word describing the racist segregation policies of South Africa before these policies were abolished by the ANC under the leadership of Nelson Mandela in the 90s; it is a word that the white minority themselves used to describe their system of control, domination, subjugation and humiliation of the indigenous black African majority.
Learning that the council had pursued a racist policy of allocating the best housing to white working - class families, Livingstone went public with the evidence, which was published in the South London Press.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon on Wednesday in a video called for the legalization of marijuana in New York, a move she said would end a racist drug policy that disproportionately impacts black and Hispanic people.
The helpful analogy between extreme Islamism and far - right extremism, made by Quilliam in its publication «In defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda», is useful for understanding the problems that Islamist extremists can pose and in drawing up government policies in response.&raquin its publication «In defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda», is useful for understanding the problems that Islamist extremists can pose and in drawing up government policies in response.&raquIn defence of British Muslims: A response to BNP racist propaganda», is useful for understanding the problems that Islamist extremists can pose and in drawing up government policies in response.&raquin drawing up government policies in response.&raquin response.»
Although he lashed out at the «racist vans» as they have been dubbed by detractors, by taking a swipe at the Home Office's latest immigration policy, and calling the vans «so silly — more than silly, unsettling», and «aimlessly driving around in a poster van saying «can you please perhaps go home?»
Also, some of the comments offensive and racist giving a rational and the necessity for Latinos in positions of policy - making in the Cuomo administration.
The former NYPD commissioner is said to be fuming over the cop - bashing policies of Mayor de Blasio, frustrated that the Rev. Al Sharpton has been given semi-official status in City Hall and disappointed that stop - and - frisk has been repudiated as racist.
The Tory core voters are the AB social classes, who were alienated by William Hague in 2001 and then again by Michael Howard in 2005, due to the fact that both were pursuing explicitly racist policy agendas.
In their first feature effort, Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown chronicle the history of the African - American roller - rink community, including the not - so - subtle racist policies they have fought against.
Like Cry Freedom, A World Apart dramatizes the evils of Apartheid and the racist policies of the ruling government through the story of white South Africans, in this case journalist and activist Diana Roth (Barbara Hershey) and her husband Gus (Jeroen Krabbé), who is seen fleeing the country for his safety in the opening scenes.
There's a scene early in Justin Simien's debut film Dear White People where Sam (Tessa Thompson)- a student at a fictional Harvard - ish Ivy League school who's known for organizing rallies against racist school policies - has an argument with her white friend -...
IN THE ERA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER, the movement that has spotlighted racist policies afflicting black Americans, a new national focus on school discipline disparities has taken hold.
We cover topics such as Betsy DeVos» fake smile and bad policies, the bi-partisan nature of corporate school reform, the process Diane went through to switch from supporting corporate reform to opposing it, how the language of school «choice» is rooted in a racist history, the wave of educator strikes around the country, and advice for Bill Gates about how to not destroy our schools.
By 2014, Perry had called educational policy analyst Diane Ravitch a racist in at least 49 tweets.
And in this struggle, teachers have a special obligation and opportunity to take sustained actions that inoculate young people against Trump's racist poison and defend immigrant and refugee students who are vulnerable to his cruel words and policies.
Politically, it gives the lie to the mainstream pretense that Australia is not really a racist society whilst providing a masterful portrayal of individual Aboriginal subjects who gaze with defiance at the viewer, resilient in the face of a litany of structural oppression that has included, but is not limited to, the stolen generations, skyrocketing rates of incarceration and continuing paternalistic policies of successive governments.
In many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequitieIn many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequitiein British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequitiein April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequities.
It's a racist policy as well that has been pandered to as «doing good» since most of this is European academically supported with the usual Marxist promises that always fail the poor in particular.
Obviously, the Princeton scientist shows his true colors as a racist as he develops research that will aid Democrats in supporting strict immigration policies for election reasons... of course, remember, not due to the brown - skinned horde, but due to the «serious» global warming crisis that will cause the brown - skinned horde.
Thus the creation of the «temporary» migrant worker programs were at their very core a policy rooted in racist exclusion.
Rachel Decoste has a wonderful overview of the evolution of Canada's immigration policies from their decidedly racist inception towards the multicultural ideals we've embraced in the Charter era.
But neither in principle nor on policy grounds can one defend treating the drunkard more harshly than the incorrigible racist.
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is considering a call for the profession to make a formal apology for its part in the harm inflicted by racist health policies and systems on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since colonisation.
The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,
People with low incomes, patients of color, people in rural areas, and the LGBTQ community — who are more likely to rely on public health programs due to discriminatory and racist public policies — would take the brunt, depriving many of anywhere to go for basic care.
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