Sentences with phrase «white middle class with»

The next hurdle for us is to love him back as we are very white middle class with only a few racial minorities, pray for us.

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What's more, a white paper out Tuesday from e-commerce company PayPal, which went public last week, sheds light on the enormous middle class who seem to still be buying, with a particular focus on U.S. - made goods sold online.

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

The White House, with its big promise to help create jobs and raise incomes for the middle class, might have taken note.

«The president is going to continue to look for partners on Capitol Hill, Democrats or Republicans, who are willing to work with him on policies that benefit middle - class families,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

For example, comparing the experience of someone who is black, middle class and female with someone who is white, working class and male.

As members of the predominantly white, middle - class, law - abiding majority, we condone their ritual deaths in order to affirm our own «humanity» and identification with the existing social order.

The common wisdom of church developers at the time was simple: where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families with children, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.

Go back to living the way we are — white middle - class with troubled kids and good kids that go to college and... oh... a week passed?

Wall explores the meaning and application of the religious freedom amendment in the Bill of Rights for our pluralistic society with its many religious minorities, and a majority that is Christian, white and middle class.

It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle - class Christian parents, a fact that — through no merit of my own — has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.

The current critique charges the Church and the churches with being part of the Establishment, white, middle - class, tax - free, economically secure, insensitive to the needs of minorities, smug in wealth, sot in structures, bureaucratic in organization.

Black compliance with «white middle - class values» should no longer be taken for granted; such compliance involved, at best, heroic self - restraint, given the cruelties inflicted on blacks; at worst, it made blacks complicit in sabotaging the redress of their powerful grievances against America.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

If you had insisted on complaining and the white men persisted in their little prank, the police may well have arrived, embarrassed at your presence, avuncularly annoyed with the young men, scrupulously correct with the black man, probably a visitor but possibly a native South African businessman himself (South Africa does have the largest black middle class in Africa).

In a country with an educated white population of over four million, with a middle class mixed race group of about two million, and the largest black middle class in Africa (admittedly a small part of the total black populace), the largest single print run is under half a million, for the weekly Sunday Times.

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

«Where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families - with - children on which to draw, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.»

Rarely can Christians from white middle - class North America claim the same sort of relationship with the spiritual life of the corporate body.

Now, granted, all of these stories come from white, middle - class people, most with higher education.

Feminists claimed that Niebuhr's thought was profoundly mysoginist: his delineation of the sin of sensuality was a rehash of the traditional denial of bodiliness, associated with the oppression of women, and the sin of pride, historically, was not a sin of women but of white middle class males; the sin of women was the lack of self - affirmation, the sin of «hiding» (in the kitchen).

The Jordans epitomize the blue - collar, white, middle - class, so - called «average Americans» who now find their political affiliation with the Republican fringe of the Tea Party.

As part of her research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope with their «life load,» and how they really parent.

The research advances have been most convincing for white, middle - class women with a high level of education; those are the mothers most likely to breast - feed.

It is obvious from these posts that homebirth with an incompetent midwife is not a problem exclusive to reasonably educated middle class white women.

We could say that this is a typical white, middle class concern — something that the author shares with a lot of worried middle class parents.

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

Participants were identified from a nationally representative consumer panel of more than 500,000 households in the United States.16 Compared with a nationally representative sample, participants in the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II were more likely to be white, middle class, and employed women.

The political left has taken up this principle with enthusiasm - in fact, it often feels like there's an army of white middle class left - wingers looking for things to be offended by on other people's behalf.

The sentiment is commendable, except that a voluntary scheme would see only the usual suspects attending — the kids who do Duke of Edinburgh, the white middle - class children whose parents are obsessed with how things look on their Ucas form.

In her effort to appear conversant with middle - class financial woes, Chirlane McCray comes off as clueless as Hillary Clinton did when she claimed that she and President Clinton were «flat broke» on leaving the White House.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

With the help of a black New York City Housing Authority chair, Simeon Golar, Lindsay attempted to erect public housing in the white, middle class enclave of Forest Hills, Queens.

Opponents warn that it will drive poorer families from city centres, with some suggesting it would turn London into Paris, where the centre of the city is populated predominantly by white, middle - class families.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

In 2006 Pierre agreed to participate in a small world experiment with Watts and ABC News that addressed two of the criticisms of small world research: that no studies had ever been played out in real time, and that the people who had participated in the chains tended be educated, white, and middle or upper class.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

The general public follows in the midth century, the need to advertise for a husband or wife was still considered a «failure» and associated with deviant behavior for many judgmental straight, white, middle - to - upper class people.

If you asked a middle class 15 year old white boy what it's like to live in the «hood», this is exactly what he'd describe; basically a living hip - hop video, complete with rappers, lowriders and hot and gratuitously naked Puerto Rican babes.

With a simple eloquence that never gets preachy, it makes the point that the gay marriage movement was driven by the white middle class, while the marginalized transgender community remains largely unrepresented.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

With Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectorWith Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectorwith three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectories.

It's just business, a private contract with a cash payoff (the family straddles middle class aspirations and working class nervousness and the money is too good to pass up), but it's beginning of the white lies, hidden truths and bad decisions that spiral out of the father's absence.

Nina knows the route to ratings success is to tap into white middle class paranoia about rampant crime, and tells Lou her ideal story is «a screaming white women with her throat cut, running down the street in a good neighbourhood».

Instead of dealing with the borderline perverse anxieties of upper middle - class white intellectuals, we have a story abou...

Redolent with the weave of Cajun, African - American and post-bellum white money, here was a piquant and funny accommodation of the manners and mores of the traditional woman's picture to the emotional and social realities of being a white middle class paraplegic in modern Louisiana.

Claustrophobically sexual, the tale involves a young, upper - middle - class woman named Helen (Virginia Madsen, in a career - best turn) who, in the course of studying the customs of the tenement - dwellers of Chicago's Cabrini - Green housing development, finds herself the inamorata of the Candyman (Tony Todd): the manifestation of an Urban urban legend, a black man lynched in another time for having the temerity to fall in love with a white woman.

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Plot: Rose Armitage (Alison Williams) comes from a well - to - do, white, middle class family and goes upstate to visit her parent's for the weekend with her black boyfriend Chris (Daniel Kaluuya).