Sentences with phrase «white liberals try»

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.

Racism is the word no one has the bad manners to utter, but Peele and his actors have great fun showing us white liberals trying and failing not to be bothered by blackness.

Not exact matches

Up to this point, the Democratic AG candidates have been releasing white papers on this or that issue, trying to differentiate themselves — or, as the case may be, out - liberal one another — in hopes of getting a toehold in the crowded field.

She can win with everything he's got,» said Joe Trippi, who faced a similar problem when he was trying to figure out the math for the 2004 campaign of Howard Dean, another Vermont liberal popular among white progressives, but one who didn't have a primary opponent with the kind of strength among African - Americans and other minority voters that Clinton's shown in 2008 and so far in this race.

«Luckily, she rarely tried to cover this ground — probably a prudent decision, given the murky and not altogether constructive works of some of the white liberals who did,» he writes.

Introduced as him trying to get inside the heads of some of his harshest critics — «liberal white women» — Che's filmed segment, «A White Woman Named Gretchen,» saw the comic donning a blonde wig and lots of scarves (but no «whiteface» makeup) to infiltrate their wwhite women» — Che's filmed segment, «A White Woman Named Gretchen,» saw the comic donning a blonde wig and lots of scarves (but no «whiteface» makeup) to infiltrate their wWhite Woman Named Gretchen,» saw the comic donning a blonde wig and lots of scarves (but no «whiteface» makeup) to infiltrate their world.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..