Holloway had already affirmed that viewpoint early in his career, when he played with an A-list of artists covering the full gamut of jazz -- from Sonny Rollins and Lester Young to Red Rodney, Lionel Hampton and dozens of others.
Could The Supreme Court, in Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896), affirm the viewpoint of the worst racists so long as life contoured along the fiction of "separate but equal?" People forget that the Pentagon has twice the number of bathrooms and water fountains needed because half were built for "whites only" and the other half were built for African-Americans.
"You commit social suicide as a black person when you say you're an atheist". Bey and other black atheists, agnostics and secularists are struggling to openly affirm their secular viewpoints in a community that's historically heralded as one of America's most religious.
One suggests that people who are similar to oneself are more positively reinforcing because they affirm one's own viewpoint (Byrne, 1971); the other suggests that we use our own viewpoint as an anchor to determine what might be good behaviour, then use this value judgement to determine whether or not another person is likely to be a trustworthy friend (Kaplan & Anderson, 1973).
Find an affirming Pentecostal church.
It's not necessary to endorse any particular viewpoint in order to affirm students' right to express their views.
Max Coleman Science communicator Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Jack Munro is right to affirm the truth in Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, (Viewpoint) but, gruelling though the film is, it only portrays the tyranny of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Most crucially, from a commercial viewpoint, is that Christianity's centrality to the black experience is affirmed in this script, not surprising when you consider that the influential minister T. D. Jakes is on board as a producer.
This book affirms the social justice imperative of diversifying the academy to include the scholarship, voices, perspectives, viewpoints, and leadership of women of color.
We affirm the values that we cherish as Americans: free inquiry, respectful encounter with others, tolerance of diverse viewpoints and peaceful co-existence among a wide array of religious bodies, groups and organizations.
