Sentences with phrase «white folks»

Are you counting the millions of white folks who live in trailers parks and collect welfare as a part of that drain on the system?

The whole history of representation is built on the representation of white folks.

And there are a few white folks in my friends predominantly black church.

In the 50's, 60's, and earlier, black folks were forbidden, by law, in various states from marrying white folks.

When white folk made broad statements like this, it reminds me of what we say in our household.

Not surprisingly, we get a charter sector that is largely developed and run by white folks from elite college.

No there are many «woke» white folks out here.

For too long white folks have tolerated that nonsense and it's one reason we have the president we do.

If white folks and black folks had equally positive levels of trust for each other there wouldn't be a racial divide.

They are talking about wealthy, urban white folks, too.

I mean... let's keep it 100... there are more rich a ** white folks than Black folks.

For whatever reason, white folk fear black folks so much.

This is the second meeting of a 6 - week series that will cover For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y» all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, with guidance from Elena Njemanze and L'aurelei Durr on how to implement Chris Emdin's work into your classroom.

He, alongside a bunch of other rich white folks who think that they know how to best serve our black or Latino children, recently produced a documentary film called

Simmons grew up in the Jim Crow South, where as part of the demoralizing impact of segregation, she «didn't believe black folks were as good as white folks.»

It's stocked mainly with super-fit actors, few of whom are likely in the ballpark of what actual ancient Egyptians looked like, unless Egypt was populated mainly by white folks with gym - sculpted bods.

Not only did Phillip expose him to Christ 1800 plus years before you generous White folks did to the slaves you brought over, but the Ethiopian was reading the scriptures of Esaias while in Jerusalem to worship.

People of color often come to this work more worn down than white folks because we bring with us the exhaustion that comes with feeling the lifelong effects of everyday racism from the rest of society.

Many white folks still insisted that Negroes were inferior people doomed to second - class citizenship.

The hypothetical commenter might write the movie off as being racist towards white folks at this point because Coogler's film provides about as much characterization to the perpetrator as 1940s combat films did for the Nazis or Japanese.

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This is signature Tarantino, here combustibly exploring America's original sin — slavery, and as race issues are still not only volatile and divisive (not to mention uncomfortably handled in most mainstream platforms, with most white folks tending to prize declawed and defused fodder like The Help and Driving Miss Daisy), it's safe to say that, whatever your hang - ups, Tarantino brings it to the foreground.

Because there are a lot of ignorant, poorly educated white folk like «Lemon Talks» who need a daddy figure — a white daddy figure — to tell them how to think.

It's the only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated public park, a desegregated public toilet; you can sit down next to white folks on the toilet.»

Hizzouse became hizzizzouse, and then white folk started saying that, and we had to change it to hizzie, then «in the hizzle» which we had to change to «hizzle fo shizzle,» and now, because white people say «hizzle fo shizzle,» we have to say «flippity floppity floop.»

But Teen Me was very infatuated than doing things different than you would, fairly good academics, and partying with wealthy white folks.

Born into rural poverty and servitude, Gaines manages, through diligent work and an ingratiating manner towards white folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruiter.

The civil - rights movement might have ended segregation and beat back centuries of slavery and oppression, but let's save a slow clap for well - meaning white folks with the moral courage to put themselves at the center of the narrative.

But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

«Kerry James Marshall's paintings of black people simply being human stand out in an art - industrial complex where subjects, artists, purveyors, and consumers are pretty much white folk.

One of the biggest miscalculations among Democrats has to do with the level of suffering among disaffected working class and middle white folks.

Note that under the Bush administration many of the problems articulated by the Tea Party were just under way or in full bloom, particularly easy credit for non-white folks, but as easy credit also reached white folks, it was tolerable.

How did you little wimpy white folk, christian folk KIDNAP 20,000,000 big strong Africans?

Hate to tell you this master race, but where I stand there's no shortage whatsoever of stupid, lazy, ignorant, food - stamp grubbing white folks, unsuitable for employment and a complete and total waste of skin.

«It's a big ask to invite white folks to think differently about what safety means.

Unless you're one of those pathetic white folks who think that «all black people look alike to me.»

Perhaps the dimly lit Presbyterian Gothic spaciousness of Fourth Church's sanctuary intimidated the hymnologists: an uptight bunch of white folks listened attentively but for the most part firmly resisted Gillespie's efforts to turn the place into a singing, clapping, toe - tapping, I'm - so - glad congregation.

Questionable (most white folks argue that they have earned what they have while many others are poor and, therefore, can't be privileged)

I am glad that the priest and his church are finally getting involved and trying to help the neighborhood but in all honesty there was no outrage or community activism on all the crime until white folks started getting killed.

This is especially important because very few white folks are taught to think about what it really means to be white in America.

Their FAITH in GOD is PURE and REAL unlike white folks.

White folk contribute your genetic material to the great melting pot that is America.

This makes it even harder to compromise, as House Democrats have no knowledge of issues affecting rural white folk and Republicans have no knowledge of urban voters.

My kin are the first white folks to homestead N Fort Myers.

What's more, his glorious, wild halo of hair is a flashpoint both for condescending white folk and for his fellow black students, some of whom ask him outright why he doesn't do something about it.

The subtext they embody is actively disturbing, presenting heroic white folks squaring off against evil black folks.

It's not their interracial romance that's the problem, but how the seemingly open - minded people in her hometown react: The rich old white folks eager to compliment Chris's physicality, ponder his sexual prowess, make sure to tell him how much they admire Tiger Woods.

The idea of being paid money to kill white folks is too good to pass up, so Django joins Schultz as his bounty hunting partner in crime, only to discover that he's actually a bit of a natural.