"The argument that they kept on making was that the Chinese are docile, submissive and hard-working, unlike African Americans," Jung said, adding that Chinese workers were considered more productive and "apolitical" compared to blacks.
Although wealthier white Americans benefitted from the trickle-down economic policies of the GOP, and could afford to be relatively apolitical in the 1980s and 1990s, blacks grappled with discrimination, income inequality, police brutality, and mass incarceration.
This episode heralds the start of the beautiful-while-it-lasts period when Daniels looks like being the antidote, an apolitical, straight-talking, in-his-position-on-merit, black cop.
And isn't it also oddly apolitical to have Guy's ever-loving housemaid played by a black actress, with no discernible directorial awareness that his soldiering has been in France's colonial campaign in Algeria?
These were black-bloc activists – some anarchist, some communist, some apolitical – in general more willing to engage in confrontation and property damage (thus the efforts to anonymise themselves).
The magnitude and reach of the Black Lives Matter matter movement, for example, has forced usually apolitical artists such as Jay Z and Beyoncé to take a stance.
Avowedly apolitical, Patrick goes along to get along with his white bosses and black colleagues, earning decent-enough wages to support his two daughters, taciturn mother-in-law and well-named wife, Precious (Bonnie Henna), a beautiful pixie who yearns for better furniture for their small home.
It is largely apolitical, albeit with many excellent (and less excellent) exceptions, but equally it is traditionally music for outsiders, black sheep and the downtrodden.
His success depends on mobilizing largely untested voting blocs, such as people under 30, apolitical independents and cross-over Republicans -- those "Obamacans" -- while consolidating his base of affluent liberals and Blacks.
They were almost apolitical.
