Sentence examples for black constituency from inspiring English sources

That was as far as you could travel in politics with a mostly black constituency.

It will also show how far out of touch the black governmental class is with its black constituency.

The redrawn district cuts Grisanti's black constituency to 5 percent from 37 percent and reduces the Democrat-to-Republican ratio to less than two to one.

Mr. Barry is the storied former mayor who served time in prison, but is still so adored by his black constituency that he has remained in elected office.

Mr. Bennett is a white farmer who was elected earlier to Parliament by a rural, black constituency in the Manicaland Province, where he is now imprisoned.

It was a shout of frustration from the pulpit, an attempt to rouse a middle-class black constituency whose taste for social action has faded with the relative contentment of the Clinton years.

Watching the debate over all-black shortlists earlier this year, it is clear that black MPs are still mostly expected to represent black constituencies.

Besides working to eliminate obstacles to African-Americans entering newsroom and television positions, editors must start listening more closely to black constituencies, African-American TV and radio station managers, journalists, film producers and learning from their perspectives.

So, too, have the new cadre of black politicians who serve largely black constituencies, like Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark, Mayor Michael A. Nutter of Philadelphia and Representative Terri Sewell of Alabama — all of whom, like Mr. Obama, have Ivy League degrees and rarely discuss the impact of racism on contemporary black life.

Yet one of Ms. Mazibuko's loudest critics was a member of her own party, Masizole Mnqasela, a member of Parliament, who wrote a letter months ago to the party's leader, Helen Zille, saying that Ms. Mazibuko "does not have a strong resonance with the black constituencies, and it will defeat our objective of trying to attract black votes".

David S. Birdsell, dean of the school of public affairs at Baruch College, said that had Mr. Cuomo reached the conclusion that Mr. Paterson had committed no crime, "at least some people would probably have said that he's not prosecuting because he doesn't want to alienate black constituencies, and he's allowing his political ambition to get in the way of his role as the state's chief prosecutor".