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How to use the word RACISM in a Sentence? Page #15

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Im just going to be honest. Megyn is 47 years old. She is our age, there has never been a time in that -- in her 47 years -- that blackface has been acceptable. I wonder how much diversity she has on her staff. I dont know; Im not there. But I would imagine theres not a lot because people would have informed her. This is what people of the larger culture dont understand about racism and about privilege.

Don Lemon

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

A wonky conversation about institutional racism and solutions to it I don't think is threatening to most people.

Tresa Undem

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I've experienced a lot of anti-Asian racism throughout my upbringing, and it hurts. It's something that is very real, and I do think anti-Asian racial epithets are not taken as seriously as slurs against other groups.

Andrew Yang

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Are we headed into an era, that just like our President, where anyone can say anything racist about anyone? Are we really in a place where racism is just a difference of opinion? If there's no response at all from NBC, I think's that pretty weak.

Phil Yu

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's unsettling. He makes a hierarchy between racism and homophobia, which are two types of discrimination that need to be fought just the same.

Jeremy Faledam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a country that has been defined by foundational, systemic, endemic racism since the very founding of this country, august 20th of 1619 - the first time that a kidnapped African was brought here against his will and made to serve as a slave to build the greatness and the success and the wealth of this country, which his descendants would never be able to fully participate in.

Beto ORourkes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Racism -- in any of its forms -- is never acceptable, not in the 1960s and not now, governor Ivey's actions were reprehensible and are deeply offensive. Governor Ivey words of apology ring hollow if not met with real action to bridge the racial divide.

Terri Sewell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's mostly people from outside who talk about racism, anti-black sentiment. At Ath, we never considered 'the Savage' to be a racist figure, it is rather a character that the inhabitants of Ath adore... when one get a kiss from 'the Savage', we have good luck all the year ahead.

Bruno Lefebvre

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Bob was right at the forefront of combating racism within the league, throughout his long career, Bob was a voice against prejudice, racism and bigotry.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Bob Cousy was right at the forefront of combating racism within the league.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Every time they asked about Elizabeth's family instead of the issues of vital importance to Indian country, they feed the President's racism, elizabeth Warren knows Elizabeth Warren will be attacked, but Elizabeth Warren's here to be an unwavering partner in our struggle, because that is what a leader does.

Deb Haaland

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The greatest problem facing the United States today is not racism; it is the disappearance of the can-do attitude that built the country, ... We’ve lost the sense of individual responsibility for our problems, and that’s bad enough. But what’s worse, we’re losing faith in our ability to solve our problems. This acquired sense of helplessness is catastrophic, and it has paralyzed large swaths of the American public – rural, urban and suburban. … Encouraging dependence upon government not only creates generations of helpless people; it inures them to government’s ineffectiveness.

Laura Hollis

added by Normando
4 years ago

I mean, connect the dots about what he's been doing in this country. Beto ORourke's not tolerating racism, Beto ORourke's promoting racism. Beto ORourke's not tolerating violence, Beto ORourke's inciting racism and violence in this country.

Beto O'Rourke

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy, these sinister ideologies must be defeated.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have a president who has aligned himself with the darkest forces in the nation, we have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced a political strategy of hate, racism, and division.

Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If the answer to the question, 'Do racism and white supremacy exist?' is yes, then the real question isn't who is or isn't a racist - but who is and isn't doing something about it.

Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I wish I could say that this all began with Donald Trump and will end with Donald Trump. But it didn't -- and I won't, american history is not a fairytale. The battle for the soul of this nation has been a constant push-and-pull for 243 years between the American ideal, that says we're all created equal, and the harsh reality that racism has long torn us apart.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

,}Read MoreIn a national address days after the shooting, Trump called on the nation to condemn racism and white supremacy. But he stopped short of acknowledging his own divisive and racist rhetoric.

Javier Rodriguez

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As far as whether or not he's fueling racism, he's fueling it.

Brenda Tucker

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is a global challenge, of course we can do what we can to defeat acts of hatred, violence and racism in our own domestic areas. But, as an international community, we should also be united against acts of hatred, violence and terrorism.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Ulster County Fair must be an event that everyone can enjoy while representing the values of all members of our community, any showcasing of a symbol of division and racism runs counter to that principle and will be vigorously opposed by my administration.

Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is part of the dark underbelly of American society, the racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we're having here tonight -- if Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this President is bringing up in this country, then I'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days, we need to say it like it is.

Marianne Williamson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I wanted to wear this Confederate flag dress as a middle finger to a symbol of racism, 3 Years Sober.

Vic Mensa

Found on CNN
4 years ago

New Jersey is clearly made in an inappropriate representation of a black person and instructs people to' slam' and' whack' her, racism has no place in the world and I will not tolerate it, especially not in this district. When I saw Feel Better Doll in person, I cringed and was truly disheartened by the thought of a black child being beaten by another child or an adult for pure pleasure. To have a product depict or teach children that it is OK to hit another child, regardless of race, in order to feel good is sick.

New Jersey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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