Sentences with phrase «white establishment»

Edelman places the 1995 verdict and Simpson's subsequent arrest in Vegas in sweeping sociopolitical context, arguing through childhood friends, teammates, Hollywood cronies, and African American activists that the legendary football star made good on his quest for fame by, instead of standing on a podium with black - gloved fist raised in defiance, assimilating into the rich white establishment.

After renaming the new girl - only group The Dreamers, he secures a gig for them in a mainly white establishment in order to help them crossover from R&B to the more widely accepted pop charts.

Black folk know too well that no matter how well - meaning white establishments are, they are not black ones.

Shugerman explains how racist Democratic politicians had implemented new restrictions on voting, and Birmingham's «white establishment worried that judicial scrutiny might jeopardize all of their voting restrictions against both black voters and poor whites.»

By evoking past suffering and current deprivations experienced by the ghetto poor, some black leaders seek to feed the guilt, and worse, the pity of the white establishment.

Says Hamilton: «Blacks would, more frequently than not, turn to their ministers to intercede for them with the white establishment.

The drama is about the future of a nearly all - white establishment and a nearly all - white middle class that's having second thoughts.

The white establishment which founded and ran this country for over two hundred years, creating the most powerful nation on earth, is in its twilight years and the future is none too clear.

The whole move from acceptance of black people to the Black Power concept came when I was active in New Haven as the Executive Secretary for the Black Ministerial Alliance; that forced me to have to rethink where I stood, whether a white person had any right to have that job in the first place and what Black Power meant vis - a-vis those of us who were part of the white establishment.

Some SWIS supporters — and there are more than 3.000 throughout the country — describe the case as a «judicial lynching» of «uppity» blacks by the white establishment.

And try to forget that whenever the white establishment needed to put a black face on whatever it was trying to sell to black people, the white establishment would trot out a minister and call it a day.

Omega is a strong, respected leader in the black community, but doesn't believe her opinions will be taken seriously by the white establishment.

In the first Shaft / Superfly blaxploitation wave, the movies focused on outlaws and outsiders, defying the white establishment.

Racial separatist groups like those who took over in Ocean Hill - Brownsville wanted their children taught by black teachers and disassociated from the white establishment.

So little has changed since W.E. B. DuBois» 1926 essay, «The Criteria of Negro Art,» in which the author criticized the aesthetic limits placed upon black artists by the white establishment.

Geoffrey Worsdale observes, «[Captain Shit] is depicted as a super hero but his ethnicity places him outside the authority of a white establishment.