In a June speech at the City Club in downtown Chicago, Lewis asked her well - heeled audience, «When will we address the fact that
rich white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African - Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents» income or education level?»
Not exact matches
Sometimes
people in developing countries
think everyone in the U.S. is
rich,
white and happy.
Sometimes I just replace
white sugar with it too, depending on the recipe (pumpkin pie, for example, tastes even
richer with this sugar and
people ask me for the recipe
thinking it's something different than the standard pumpkin pie recipe.
I was actually
thinking of making a citrus sorbet for
people who want to go the less -
rich route... And maybe chocolate sorbet... Then I'll have chocolate & vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, hot fudge sauce, &
white chocolate sauce.
I don't
think Conor gets that same sympathy that normal
rich white people do.
Sometimes I just replace
white sugar with it too, depending on the recipe (pumpkin pie, for example, tastes even
richer with this sugar and
people ask me for the recipe
thinking it's something different than the standard pumpkin pie recipe.
The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us
think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke»
white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little
people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner,
rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).
It gets worse, as she adds, «I am left in my more cynical moments with the
thought that poor black children have become the vehicle by which
rich white people give money to their friends.»
«When will we address the fact that
rich,
white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African Americans and Latinos — no matter what the parent's income or education level.»
«They
think of it as some Trojan horse for
rich white people who want to privatize schools.»