I pray regularly for the day that the United States joins the nations of Europe, North America and all but a few of our South and Central American neighbors in recognizing that state-sanctioned execution is, in practice, racist; in essence, immoral; and in too many instances, murderous.
Obviously, it is nothing new for a litigant to blast a judge's handling of a case, but charging the judge as racist reveals the essence of racism itself.
Fiercely atheist, his attacks on religion in general and Islam in particular have often generated polarized reactions, with some hailing his candidness and freethinking while others alleging that generalizes too much and is in essence a racist and xenophobic.
In "The Greatest Comeback", Patrick Buchanan, a close adviser to Nixon, works hard to make that case.The standard criticism of Nixon's victories is that they involved, in essence, an opportunistic annexation of racist white southern Democrats who had been orphaned when the national Democratic Party embraced civil rights.
After The New York Observer reported in December that Ms. McCray had previously identified as gay, The New York Post ran an editorial cartoon that depicted her and her husband both wearing women's lingerie; in Essence, Ms. McCray calls the cartoon "racist, ignorant, and crude".
Political in its very essence, it was started by anti-racist campaigner Claudia Jones in the wake of the Notting Hill riots of August , 1958
In essence, the 1926 law, universally regarded as illogical, unfair, and downright racist, had reared its old, dusty head once again, disrupting businesses, criminalizing dancing, and making us all worry about our livelihoods.
We wondered if attention would shift back to Placas' racially-charged hiring when Michael Bullerdick, Essence's former managing editor, resigned from his position in April after posting racist comments on his personal Facebook page.
