Sentences with phrase «white liberals»

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

This is the dilemma facing affluent white liberals: They want to lead a coalition in favor of equality, but their identity places them under suspicion.

The idea was to unite the borough's delegation and possibly bid for support from white liberals and women from other parts of the state.

No matter how windy the debate becomes among white liberals and conservatives as to what should be done in the public sphere, meeting this self - creating challenge ultimately depends upon black action.

In the second and more important place, the subject of Get Out is not white liberals.

Part of this is ideology, of course, since affluent white liberals are the most extreme segment of the Democratic coalition.

Forty years, forty years and to the present those loving white liberals control the educational system what is graduating from highschool baffles the mind most cant fill out a job application.

(One is also reminded of the character in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace who uncomplainingly accepts her rape by three black men out of white liberal guilt.)

Even Martin King did not ask that question so as to expose the flawed white liberal thinking about God that he had encountered in graduate school.

Too often, white liberals try to demonstrate their racial generosity by insisting that color doesn't make a difference, and that aside from the natural accident of color we have in common our humanity.

He was reviled by the Archie Bunkers of that era, but he became a progressive hero, providing white liberals with a twofer — in celebrating him, they could be anti-war and anti-discrimination.

Granted, Get Out is more concerned with a very specific sort of white liberal racism than the more traditional KKK style, one predicated on hiding prejudices behind an exterior of hollow inclusivity, but its racial sentiments feel undeniably prescient considering how the rest of 2017 ended up playing out.

Here the race issue is brought to the forefront: two upper - class white liberals find their own progressive values challenged when their daughter returns home from a ten - day Hawaiian vacation with a black fiancé in tow.

Get Out is sharp and cutting during its buildup — you'll never want this section to end — and the addition of two awkwardly ingratiating adults (Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford) makes a comic meal out of white liberal privilege with every «cool» handshake and turn of phrase («Hug me, my man!»

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Missy and Dean have a party and all the wealthy white guests come by to tell Chris every story they know about black people to put Chris at ease in the keenest, sharpest observation of how rich white liberals treat minorities I've ever seen.

«They're aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans.»

You know they (slavacracts) must follow protocol and use the chain of white liberal command and it must be approved I must say.

Here Third World women must package their stories in English, and in terms white liberal theologians will want to read.

For both many African - Americans and many white liberals, to speak openly of this personal responsibility is, in effect, to exonerate European Americans for their complicity in deeply embedded racist practices.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

He called white liberals «foxes» in contrast to Southern «wolves.»

Northern white liberals hated Malcolm for his uncompromising, brutal honesty.

White liberals felt a new sense of urgency to get things done in order to avoid the growing potential for violent actions.

But white liberals grew nervous when Tutu called for a boycott of South African products.

In the mid-1990s, I remember some Asian / black British writers arguing that, but one mostly know hears this from a particular strand of white liberal commentators in the Guardian, Independent or New Statesman.

Jackson is an African - American with historically close ties to teachers unions, Rangel's Harlem machine and to an array of predominantly white liberal clubs in the southern reaches of the district.

For them, abortion is a «tragedy» because its not part of the Margaret Sanger - inspired genocide white liberals have waged against African - Americans for the last 40 years.)

White liberals dissatisfied with Mr. Rangel, Latinos in East Harlem and voters who turned out for the first time in last year's mayoral primary — so - called «surge voters» — will be among those the Espaillat camp hopes to reach, the source said.

«At the end of the day he's not a progressive, he's an establishment white liberal.»

Stoller also compares this race to the 2006 Ned Lamont - Joe Lieberman primary, and suggests that «the Occupy bloc has emerged» (that is, «teachers, librarians, fracktivists, techies and publishers» in the 30 - 45 year old white liberal demo).

Bonnie Wong, president of Asian Women in Business, said she saw Mr. Stringer making a concerted effort to reach beyond his roots as «an Upper West Side white liberal.»

But the mayor's poll numbers remain strong with his base of black, brown, and white liberal voters, and right now there is no plausible challenger to his left in 2017, when de Blasio is up for re-election.

He reminded me of the guilt - ridden white liberals in the»60s who invited the Black Panthers into their wealthy homes and thought they were so chic.

Peele's «Get Out» is a remarkedly assured black comedy (pun intended) that relies on exploitation tropes (startle effects, etc.) to comment on what the Black Lives Matter movement has insisted all along: though white liberal Americans may fool themselves into thinking otherwise, racism still permeates suburban gated communities.

shock of Get Out that did the most to make white liberals squirm.

Intending to puncture Obama - era white liberal «post-racial» life, Peele instead speaks to a more overt and horrifying open racism; he could not have anticipated his film would not only be the movie of the moment, but that the moment could be so horrifying.

«Get Out» hits with the impact of a bombshell in the supposed «post-racial» landscape of America, lampooning not the overtly racist (they're scary enough) but the affluent white liberal set who think they have transcended concerns of prejudice while remaining oblivious to their racial micro-aggressions.

White liberal journalists, knowing that Peele got his start in comedy, have tagged Get Out as a satire on the racism that persists among their own groups.

White liberal men are dangerous creatures in von Trier's universe, partly because they think they «understand.»

That premise — which finds wealthy white liberals using hypnosis and brain surgery to turn black people into their slaves — skewered the notion of a post-racial America from multiple directions at once, setting aside more obvious targets to unearth some of the worst aspects of black - white tensions hiding in plain sight.

Get Out, a horror that satires white liberal racism picked up four nominations, while Call Me By Your Name, a romantic gay coming - of - age love story, is a front - runner in three categories.

Jordan Peele's first effort as a writer / director fairly simmers with rage — not at the clichéd southern - fried racist rednecks of most horror movies that have discrimination at their root, but at white liberals who have all the right friends and say all the right things (or what they think are the right things).

Its uncompromising look at racism within white liberal types is what hooked the masses, but what lingers is the morbid visual imagination Jordan Peele injects that reveals the rotten flesh under the white American post-racial facade.

It has left white liberals who oppose charter school growth in an awkward standoff with parents of color who support it.