Sentences with phrase «targeted by racism»

It is well documented that members of communities targeted by racism can feel anxious, unwelcome and less confident to participate in public life and debate.

But that there could be some who are hoping that the fallout from an honest struggle by people targeted by racism might afford them an opportunity for political gain.

I know as a woman who has been targeted by racism her whole life that this issue is not lost on her.

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Wright is scarcely tolerant of racism (nor should he be), Dickens is scathing towards the utilitarian Gradgrind and his cohorts, and Nussbaum, in claiming that the enemies targeted by Wright and Dickens are her enemies too, joins their condemnations.

Sheikh Abdullah N Al Thani, who has funded Malaga for the past couple of years, posted several farcical tweets to the social networking site blaming racism and UEFA for targeting the Spanish club from the beginning of the season, clearly irked by the substandard officiating during the game and Malaga's impending ban from European competition.

«This research shows that prejudice has far - reaching consequences that span beyond targeted groups: White women may be harmed by racism and men of color harmed by sexism,» explains psychological scientist Diana Sanchez of Rutgers University.

And though Solondz's counter - attack / apologia is trenchantly written and laudably thought - provoking, his rages are by now familiar (and better served by the scope and savagery of Happiness), and his defensiveness is ironically the most unbecoming element of a film that counts among its targets racism, disability, classism, homosexuality, and higher education.

Moreover, we are 15 years into the data - driven school - reform movement, which is based on the idea that racial - and economic - achievement gaps are largely caused by the «benign racism of low expectations,» and that the solution is to hold individual educators accountable for meeting discrete, quantifiable targets.

«This order institutionalizes xenophobia and racism by targeting people entering the US based on their nationality and religion» Ganesh wrote.

«The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America,» at the Brooklyn Museum, is a collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, founded by the lawyer and MacArthur fellow Bryan Stevenson to target racism in the criminal justice system.

Lumping all these behaviours under the term «cyberbullying» ignores the fact that women and girls, as well as LGBTQ communities and racial minorities, are disproportionately targeted by hate on the Internet, and it erases the sexism, racism, homophobia and transphobia often underlying the abuse.