Sentences with phrase «way black folks»

Sadly, de Blasio wants to be relected more than he wants to make a serious change in the way black folks (like his wife and kids only less well - known) are treated by the police.

«The fractious atmosphere — Charlottesville, «s — hole» — nowadays harks back to the ways black folks and black spaces were demonized during slavery and Jim Crow,» he says.

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You put a few of them in the spotlight — made us look a certain way — made us look anti Black — but what does that do for regular folks except increase muggings and store robberies?

«It's just that a guy who has spent his public life in Vermont really doesn't have the opportunity to show what they would do in a progressive way as related to improve the quality of life of black folks... to have demonstrated any profiles in courage,» Rangel said.

If things continue the way they are going, W. E. B. Dubois's eloquent statement of fact in his historic novel The Souls of Black Folk echoes an undeniable truth: «The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color - line.»

On his way to the airport's coffee shop, the Tricycle Man parks and walks by a red - jacketed chauffeur named Norman (David Arkin) who stands attentively by his black limousine - he is there to pick up members of a popular performing rock / folk group «Tom, Bill, and Mary».

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary on DVD Revisits Black Revolution of the Sixties During the Black Power Movement back in the Sixties, most folks only got to know the leaders by way of sound bites disseminated by the mass media.

Mildred, whose bottomless grief has hardened into a single - minded, nothing - left - to - lose crusade, bulldozes through anyone unwise enough to stand in her way: not just the cops who, in her words, are «too busy torturing black folks to solve actual crimes,» but also neighbors, asshole teenagers, and the town's condescending Catholic priest, who she dresses down with a juicy, show - stopping monologue.

xviii - xix) Cultivated by ancestors in Africa for ages, black folks» spirit of philanthropy was ingrained way before their arrival on these shores.

Ditto Charles Murray's Losing Ground, «another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies — which addressed the way our government encouraged social decay through the welfare state,» he notes.

, are rejecting, there are other, more pervasive ways that Black folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schools.

While there are some moves to disenfranchise black people further through fake voting fraud investigations that several states, including Pennsylvania, are rejecting, there are other, more pervasive ways that Black folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schblack people further through fake voting fraud investigations that several states, including Pennsylvania, are rejecting, there are other, more pervasive ways that Black folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schBlack folks continue to be marginalized and their enfranchisement wholly and consistently undermined — namely, denial of access to quality of schools.

However, the other rumour that perhaps not so many of us were looking forward to, was the confirmation that Black Ops 4 won't have a traditional singleplayer campaign, although the folks at Treyarch and Activision did emphasise that there are many ways to experience Black Ops 4 is you're a solo player.

(1) Black Folk Art in America was indisputably pioneering, yet ultimately problematic in the ways it flirted with primitivist stereotypes that figured the self - taught black artist as uneducated and impoveriBlack Folk Art in America was indisputably pioneering, yet ultimately problematic in the ways it flirted with primitivist stereotypes that figured the self - taught black artist as uneducated and impoveriblack artist as uneducated and impoverished.

In a 1976 interview, conducted for his retrospective at CUNY that year, Lewis said he painted social subjects earlier in his career because he believed it would change the way people think if they were to see what was actually happening to black folks.