Sentence examples for racial provocation from inspiring English sources

But there is also an American Negro tradition which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain.

So perhaps his Dixiecrat proclamation, if not a dream, might have been a staff-driven gaffe rather than a deliberate act of racial provocation.

The Republican establishment began to wince as it became increasingly tied to Mr. Trump's flirtations with racial provocation, and Karl Rove told him to knock it off.

But what's surprising about Trump's strategy of racial provocation is that African-Americans have played a relatively small role in it.

Doreen St. Félix wrote about the racial politics of "The Bachelorette," normally "a pleasantly arcane sociological fantasy" that, with the casting of the first African-American Bachelorette, has become tinged by racial provocation.

There's a lot of great music, but not much delving into what made it revolutionary, nor into Brown's role as an influential spokesman for black America in the late 60s, when it was a liberation in itself – almost a racial provocation in reverse – for a black man to stand up and say, "I am a Man".

But the movie is not without racial provocations.

"Tenenbaums" is a dark story, turning on drug use, a plane crash, a suicide attempt, racial provocations, fatal illness, and a quasi-incestuous bond between a brother and his adopted sister.

Haney López also tells Bill that he expects the racial provocations will evolve to target members of the Latino and Asian communities in the coming years.

It seems some passages packed a double whammy of provocation, racial and sexual, in the 1940's that prompted the Book-of-the-Month Club to delete them.

It's a question that will be asked at the Edinburgh Fringe next month, which in recent years has resembled less a comedy festival than a sounding board for racial and sexist provocation.