Sentences with phrase «shameful history»
"Shameful history" refers to a past that is full of actions, events, or behaviors that are regarded as embarrassing, disgraceful, or morally wrong. Full definition
wrote Engel, who noted Paladino's «similarly shameful history of spreading racially offensive materials and enflaming racial divisions.»
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Candidate Muhammadu Buhari, hardly a revolutionary in spite of his ascetic contempt for graft, struck the right message; the people keyed into it; and Jonathan, with his hubris - stricken Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), became shameful history!
«Kevin Cahill owes the people of Kingston, as well as all the people of Ulster County, an enormous apology for his disgraceful behavior, but unfortunately his ego and shameful history virtually ensures that he will not deliver.»
Another moment sparked a rethink about the Commission's approach to healing, when a young girl at one of the public hearings, angry at this hidden shameful history, asked: «Why didn't I learn about this in school, why has this not been told to me?»
There is no easy way to convince a people that your religion's shameful history of anti-Semitism is almost as inexplicable to you as it is to them.
Just after the Cuban missile crisis, they insisted that Americans look to the «enemy within» for part of the cause of the crisis itself, especially «the shameful history of [American] exploitation of Cuba» (November 7, 1962).
Soong - Chan Rah writes that «true reconciliation, justice, and shalom require a remembering of suffering, an unearthing of a shameful history and a willingness to enter into lament.
Smith also powerfully argues that the usual narrative, in which the post — World War II and Warren - era Supreme Court rescued the nation from a shameful history of religious persecution and discrimination, has things essentially backwards.
I'm glad the U.S. legislates the biblical morality of civil rights for African Americans after a shameful history of oppression and slavery.
The shameful history of the treatment of gays and lesbians, the hateful speech, violence, and exclusion from churches and other communities sits there, bearing its powerful witness, tipping the scales.
Radical iconoclasm has, in my judgment, a shameful history.
He broke professional football's color barrier in 1946, yet even though he played alongside Robinson in college, few people remember the great running back Kenny Washington or the shameful history of segregation in the NFL
Red - faced Sox A sportswriter describes the Boston Red Sox» long and shameful history of racial prejudice
Andrew's plan is also an opportunity for him to erase the shameful history of the Javits Center during his father's tenure as governor.
THE shameful history of scientific racism in the 20th century is well known.
Unflinching and timely, these stories reflect the ongoing history of Native resistance to colonization, giving a face to communities fighting for their most basic rights with an enduring hope that a shameful history will never be repeated.
Our education system has a shameful history of writing kids off — especially poor and minority kids — and diverting them into «general» or «vocational» tracks that were highways to nowhere.
In less than a decade, the states have created a new achievement gap that is nearly two - thirds the size of the achievement gap between black and white students, a gap rooted in slavery, discrimination, and 200 years of shameful history.
She argued that unions have tried to address «the shameful history of how teachers were treated.»
This generously illustrated account of the shameful history of the U.S.» internment of Japanese Americans during WWII is thorough, thoughtful, and provocative.
Her graphic images remind us of what we repeatedly forget: that we are living within, and not outside of, a shameful history.