Sentences with phrase «systemic racism in the country»

Just a few years ago, public condemnations from him of police brutality and overall systemic racism in the country were few and far between, with Jay's frustrations and reflections over his tough childhood limited mostly to his music, including «Politics as Usual» from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt.

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But by the time my semester came to an end, I learned some wholly unexpected lessons about the transformative power of prayer in a jail setting; about the effects on the body of such personal transformation; and about this country's systemic racism and how it is in some ways coterminous with the attempt to prevent or repress such transformation.

But the film's true power comes from Rees» vision of this world, as her wide angle shots frame the full scale of prejudice and injustice and reframe the larger issue of systemic racism that is as deeply rooted in this country as the McAllan's cotton crop.

In The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, authors Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington lay out what happened; how the state's legal system aided and abetted the use of flawed forensic evidence; how systemic racism influenced Mississippi's coroner system; and the stories of some of the innocent people whose lives were deraileIn The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, authors Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington lay out what happened; how the state's legal system aided and abetted the use of flawed forensic evidence; how systemic racism influenced Mississippi's coroner system; and the stories of some of the innocent people whose lives were derailein the American South, authors Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington lay out what happened; how the state's legal system aided and abetted the use of flawed forensic evidence; how systemic racism influenced Mississippi's coroner system; and the stories of some of the innocent people whose lives were derailed.

Just because we have received an Apology from the Australian Government for their past abuses and violations of our human rights, this will not stop systemic racism born into the attitudes of some in this country.

Now I note that you said today that there's been great improvement over a short period of time, and I'm sure there has been, but you know it's interesting to me, and again I will say this because I come from a country myself where there is a disadvantaged community and a lot of government programs et cetera, it's of serious concern the extent of the dramatic inequalities that are still being experienced by these population groups when they represent only, you know, no more than 2 % of the population of a highly developed, industrialised state, and I just, it makes me wonder about things like the effectiveness of the programs, monitoring, benchmarking, what are the standards, is anybody watching this to see whether or not they really are designed to meet the disadvantages that are real in the communities, you know the real history of systemic discrimination, institutional racism?