Sentences with phrase «same about minorities»

Your great grandfather probably thought the same about minorities wanting to sit at the front of the bus.

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Anyone who's read or heard anything about diversity in tech is familiar with the pipeline problem: the fact that women and under - represented minorities don't pursue STEM degrees at the same rate as men.

Interpersonal phenomena like stereotype threat, in which people from stigmatized groups spend mental energy grappling with negative stereotypes about those groups, can lead women and minorities with the same skills to perform more poorly.

The same reason why older founders are ignored by the ecosystem is the same reason why women and other minorities struggle in the Valley: It's really not about what you build, but what you look like while building it.

Same - sex marriage's journey from minority status to the law of the land offers important lessons about gaining broad - based public support that fiduciary advocates can gain from.

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

All I see is Muslims who say that they are being sterotyped, but I do nt see those same people complaining about sterotypes actually telling the «minority» they are wrong for being violent.

But at the same time, what I say at the end of the book is the programs I talk about are really small and represent just a small minority of the kinds of experiences kids — and especially low - income kids — are having in American schools today.

I'm well aware that my point of view is in the minority and not the politically - correct thing to say these days, but I know there are other women who feel this same way about pregnancy weight gain / loss... you've emailed me for goodness sakes!

Question topics included whether there are similarities between past defenses of states banning interracial marriage and current defenses of states banning same - sex marriages, his reaction to NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks's resignation, whether campaign contribution limits are too high and what Cuomo intends to seek as campaign finance reforms if reelected, whether he's going to the Somo el Futuro conference in Puerto Rico next week, whether he's worried that «minorities» will not turn out on election day and how his recent references to recent New York Republicans as being «moderates» reconciles with his past statements about «ultraconservatives» in the state senate.

«We in the minority raised questions about it because we said that the common fund is supposed to go to the districts for development in the districts... The government can not turn round and depend on the same common fund it cut by 25 % and wants to use the same common fund to finance these initiatives in the districts.

The same position that only two years ago County Legislator and Minority Leader Frank Sparaco referred to in a series of Rockland County Times articles as being a no - show job paid off as political patronage to former Chair of the Independence Party Marsha Coopersmith, is now going to the law firm of Sparaco's close friend and lawyer Jay Savino, albeit at about half the price and on an annual per diem basis.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer invoked the same case in voicing «very serious doubts» about the Colorado judge.

The root of the problem runs very deep, as even other females or underrepresented minorities can hold the same stereotypical beliefs about me based on a glance.

Take a trifecta of movies about affluent Connecticut: Ang Lee's The Ice Storm looks back at how a souring of American innocence in the 1970s found its way into affluent suburbia, Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows explores the small town classism of the 1950s as it was happening, and Todd Haynes» Far From Heaven casts its eyes on the same period to illustrate the obstacles minorities and the LGBT community faced.

I don't buy into the philosophy that only women should make movies about women or women's issues, or that only members of a given minority group should be allowed to make movies about that same minori...

«Children need to see someone with whom they can identify — someone who listens to the same music, enjoys the same foods, laughs at the same jokes, cries about the same problems, worships the same way,» Evelyn Dandy, director of a minority recruitment effort at Armstrong Atlantic State University, in Savannah, Georgia, told Education World.

On some measures, minority 12th graders score about the same as white 8th graders, who themselves are not scoring well.

I assume he'd make the same kind of argument about Martin Luther King's «Southern Christian Leadership Conference» telling minorities to speak out, be heard and attend non-violent demonstrations.

In videotaped interviews, the children tell Takala about the debate they are having among themselves, one that contains all the same tensions that dominate adult politics — public versus private goods, collective versus individual benefits, majority versus minority rights.

Skeptics who complain about not having their voices heard the same amount as those who know AGW is happening are striving for a system of minority over-representation.

In December 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder called King a father of the environmental justice movement and urged everyone to think about the environment as a civil rights issue — because minority and low income populations have the same right to be free of health hazards posed by unsustainable practices as everyone else.

The percentage of black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) judges grew from 6 % to 7 % in the same period prompting Lord Thomas, the lord chief justice, to say that he remains «very concerned» about the recruitment of BAME judges.

Rostosky, Riggle, Gray, and Hatton (2007) found that same - sex couples utilize four basic coping strategies when faced with prejudice, such as self - acceptance as a minority relationship, by focusing on the positives of their relationship, ignoring or compartmentalizing negative experiences, finding empowerment from being assertive about their relationship, and reframing the prejudice they receive.