Sentences with phrase «white minority rule»

At the same time, the distinct encounters of the settlers in Algoa Bay or the Natal colony laid the groundwork for the system of white minority rule — Apartheid — that was codified over a century later.

On top of each drawing, Chiurai has inscribed imagined letters by Foucault, writing on the intrinsic nature of madness — a diagnosis Chiurai believes was used to motivate colonial expansion and white minority rule in Africa and continues to serve as a contributing factor to the failure of post-colonial African nation states.

His generation literally gave up most of their adult lives to fight to liberate black people from the yoke of white minority rule.

Nelson Mandela the first Black to be elected South African President, was once in jail with a life sentence for the charge of «treason», imposed by a Nazi - like White minority ruling - National party Regime that ruled South Africa for more than 70 years, and he went on to become the President of a fully integrated South Africa.

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Initiatives detailed in the White House fact sheet ranged from committing to the «Rooney rule,» a recruiting practice in which at least one woman and one minority are considered for each position, to more specific ideas and goals.

It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one — it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo - Saxon Protestants.

Dlamini - Zuma pledged during her campaign to tackle the racial inequality that has persisted in South Africa since the end of white - minority rule.

However, the White House spokesman refused to respond to questions about Trump's stance on the 1,500 hour rule — which the president ought to commit to, said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat.

I'd even add that it's worth it just for the scene where everything screeches to a halt for a couple of minutes while Joe delivers an impassioned, vein - popping progressive screed about how all you rich white guys better watch out, because the United States is a confidence game cooked for the ruling class and one day poor, downtrodden minorities and women will rise up and take what's theirs.

Kansas City schools were already predominantly minority, and the Supreme Court had ruled in the Detroit case that surrounding school districts not found guilty of segregation could not be pulled into a case to provide more white students for desegregation.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

But in an opinion written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who once again proved to be the decisive swing vote, the court ruled that the New Haven fire department violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it threw out the results of a promotional exam in which white candidates outperformed minority candidates.

Agents also were alleged to have violated fair housing rules by sharing their personal opinions of the quality of the Allentown schools and the level of crime in the city to white buyers but not to minority buyers.