Sentence examples for Colored People Time from inspiring English sources

But the routine was remembered less for the laughs and more for the racially charged joke about "CP time", which De Blasio explained meant "careful politician" time, but was widely interpreted as a reference to "colored people" time.

The church service that was to begin the march was scheduled to take place at ten o'clock, but veterans advised newcomers — in the first of several bitter, self-mocking jokes that became current on the Selma-Montgomery road — that this was C.P.T., Colored People Time, and the service actually began more than an hour behind schedule.

Angela Bassett's only experience working with Samuel L. Jackson was in the early 1980s when she was an understudy, and he a star, in a Negro Ensemble Company production of "Colored People's Time," a play of vignettes set between the Civil War and the Montgomery bus boycott.

GABRIEL TEODROS Colored People's Time Machine FCB/MADK.

(d,e,f) Colored people.

You can't blame the Clintons – they have handed Sanders one unforced error after another, from Hillary praising the Reagans on Aids and joking about "CPT" ("colored-people time") to Bill yelling at a protester that black lives matter in Africa.

I was thrilled that the president opened his roast about being late because he was "running on CPT – which stands for 'jokes that white people should not make'", a clear swipe at Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio's racist (and corny) sketch about "colored-people time".

Observe what colors people like and dislike.

F2L is a New York City based group of individuals doing support work for queer and trans people of color facing time in the New York State prison system.

Meanwhile, tech companies (Apple, Twitter, Uber) have been bringing on board or promoting people of color, often times women of color, to clean up the messes at their respective companies.

Three months later, in October, the USCOC mailed out yet another full-color advertisement, headlined this time "People with Medicare Really Have Something to Smile About," and explaining: "That's because they can save on their drug costs by joining a Medicare prescription drug plan".