Sentences with phrase «ugly history in»

Using standardized tests to label black people and immigrants «lesser,» while systematically under - funding their schools, has a long and ugly history in this country.»

And no doubt, there's an ugly history in this country of pushing kids into vocational programs based on their race or class.

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In a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceiveIn a recent conversation about the difficulties that black women face in the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceivein the professional sphere, Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From The Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceivein America, pointed to the ugly mix of race and misogyny that affects the way black women are often perceived.

New Orleans is continuing its purge of memorials to some of the ugliest chapters in American history by pulling down a 106 - year - old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

It's taken a very long time, but one of America's most beloved personalities may have to finally address the ugliest chapter in his history: numerous allegations of sexual abuse.

Few things are uglier than a thoroughly irascible person, and it is clear why very early in the history of the church anger came to be regarded as one of the seven deadly vices.

Yes, Burnett's production team actually split a video in two to further the narrative that Beck has long and «ugly history» of obsessing over President Obama and Satan.

It's a deep - seated issue that has far - reaching roots in religion's ugly history of perpetuating racism.

In what has arguably been the ugliest presidential campaign in modern history, every day brings new charges and counter-charges of sexual assaulIn what has arguably been the ugliest presidential campaign in modern history, every day brings new charges and counter-charges of sexual assaulin modern history, every day brings new charges and counter-charges of sexual assault.

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Look at what religion has often done in history — its bloody wars, its cruel persecutions, its brutal rituals of human sacrifice, its ugly superstitions, the barricades set up by religion against every advance of science.

Redemption is not just «God's way of tidying up messy places in history or covering up ugly moments of our life together or our lives as individuals redemption is not about saving situations or justifying oppression or abuse.»

Huffington Post: Louie Gohmert: Slavery Was «A Blot On Our Existence,» But We're Farther From God Now Rep. Louie Gohmert (R - Texas) stated on Tuesday that the legacy of slavery in the United States was a particularly ugly moment in the nation's history, but that the situation now is even worse.

Anti-Semitism and racial prejudice against black Africans are two of the uglier maladies in the history of the West, but in the work of its greatest dramatist we see that these evils are not integral to its civilization, and that in the West's critical spirit lie the means of its continual reform.

Despite the ugly history and lack of diversity in the US, I still believe!

«It's the ugliest dance in the history of the NFL,» Houston Oiler cornerback Patrick Allen has said of the Shuffle.

Former Chelsea midfielder Oscar may look like an angel but his behaviour was far from angelic earlier today as he played his part in one of the ugliest games in Chinese Super League history.

The ugly win will do nothing to quiet the college football cognoscenti who have called the Hawkeyes everything from «frauds» (an ESPN talking head) to «the worst 7 — 0 team in Big Ten history» (a Detroit News columnist before the win at Michigan State).

«If you take the history of the game, the biggest winners in the game... if you have to play ugly to convince people to win then it's the wrong debate.

Nova will attempt to become the ninth program in college basketball history to win at least three titles, while Michigan will try to buck the trend of ugly Big Ten national championship performances.

They must have been aware that there's been a history of having these blogger junkets blow up in a very ugly way (especially this year, I think there's some social unrest behind a lot of the rage about these junkets), and, given that they've been boycotted for over 30 years, they must have known that, you know, activists use the Internet.

The sometimes ugly anti-Catholicism that helped prompt JFK's 1960 speech is noted by several writers and echoed at many points in American history.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said if Congress fails to come up with a solution for the young immigrants known as «Dreamers» deporting them would be «one of the ugliest stains» in US history.

He said, «It was much unexpected from any quarter that such a barbaric act should rear its ugly head in 2016 when we thought all acts of hooliganism have been thrown into the dustbin of history.

«History is written by the winners» is a recurring theme in the «Thor» films, and this time around, they expose the ugly truths behind Asgard's long reign of success, not unlike our country's relatively recent re-evaluation of one Christopher Columbus.

Despite these flaws, Django Unchained is required viewing, countless images and inspirations molded together in Tarantino's mind with a smirking but heartfelt bent at an ugly time in American history.

The murders of these innocent black men stands as one of the most despicable incidents in the long, ugly history of racial conflict in America.

The actor is still holding out hope for a Hellboy sequel and discusses Frankie Goes Boom, where he stars as «the ugliest woman in the history of womanhood.»

It's just that the scenes outside from Mandela's statements of his belief that the people of his country could stand united as South Africans in spite of its apartheid history and the formulation of a plan to use a primarily white rugby team to help achieve this goal in spite of the majority of the country's initial desire to rid the nation of a vestige of those ugly times are pretty simplistic.

Charles Laughton (perhaps the ugliest, and greatest, actor in film history) stars as the defense attorney for Tyrone Power (who's terrible), who has been accused of killing a middle - aged widow.

History is relived and ugly acusations are unfurled as Fred and Velvet take turns wielding the power in their exchanges.

The bloodbath may well be Tarantino's way of exorcising the demons in one of the uglier chapters of American history.

Slavery is one of the ugliest chapters in American history, but it's one that Hollywood has increasingly been willing to revisit in recent years.

There's no denying the state's racist history of school segregation or its ugly efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s to undermine desegregation orders by helping white children to evade racially integrated schools.

So while ugly episodes in our country's history should not be ignored, the relevance of sectarian strikes and nativists campaigns in the mid 19th century, to the current debates about school vouchers, and other important policy debates relating to the relationship between church and state, is highly suspect, I think, for several reasons.

Just really good looking, especially considering the E-Coupe has, in recent history, been the awkward, if not quite ugly, duckling.

That is the ugliest rearend in the history of motoring.

The ugliest headlights in automotive history... what were they thinking?

In the form of an affidavit, narrator Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky (formerly known as «Arson Girl») chronicles the history — the good, the ugly and the absurd — of her family - by - marriage's candy company.

As editor I was not only participant in reconstructing the conversations, its perverse drama of unwanted soap opera homo - sex (there was no DSK - button in his office) and the Chairman's alcoholism, but also commentator of John Wiley & Sons ugly history.

This explosive documentary, chronicling ugly events in U.S. military history, tells the story behind the shocking photographs depicting the abuse of Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib at the Baghdad Correctional Facility.

As editor I was not only participant in reconstructing the conversations, its perverse drama of unwanted homo - sex and the Chief's alcoholism, but also commentator of John Wiley & Sons ugly history.

It's an ugly story, repeated so often in human history, when public policy shatters peaceful communities.

It's not the ugliest smartphone I've seen in recent history, but the asymmetrical design on the back of the device is a bit jarring at first, as was the case with other Incredible phones.

In anticipation of Scott Westerfeld's alternate history novel Leviathan, Simon & Schuster has made his book Uglies available for free download.

While some have criticized the idea of making a for fun shoot em up about one of the ugliest points in human history, i'm choosing to hold off on that for right now.

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I decided to try the impressively new, at the time, Atari Jaguar, and came face to face with the ugliest controller in gaming history, The games available to play were equally ugly, and surprisingly incomprehensible.

Castelli called it «ugly» in his 1973 oral - history interview.

Thus, in very different ways, both paintings shoulder the weight of America's ugly history that continues to exert a hold on contemporary culture.