It was said that these Northern whites were the particular scourge of the Southern whites, often incurring worse beatings than the local blacks.
A century ago, genteel white opposition to the scourge of lynching centered not on arguments about shared humanity but on the idea that the spectacle of racial homicide conveyed an image of barbarism that ran counter to the economic interests of the South.
If we work together, we can eliminate the scourge of white supremacy and the very real instances of racism that exist in our society.
At the time "opium dens" were breathlessly reported as a scourge on (white) society, and politicians brought in laws that basically aimed to punish and ostracize the Chinese.
This reflection is precisely what I long for in a film with a predominantly black cast: a movie conveying black people — all of whom on this planet are somehow shaped by the scourge of white supremacy — existing in this world and coping with its injustices, but not being wholly defined by them.
They could spend more time on facts, however inconvenient to their personal ideas – like, say, that poor whites are the moral scourge of this country.
And while the jury verdict in the civil fraud case on Wednesday was hailed by Preet Bharara, the hard-charging United States attorney who has become the scourge of white-collar criminals on Wall Street, Ms. Mairone seems — on the face of it — the most unlikely of culprits to emerge from the housing debacle.
He organised a multiracial theatre company, supported a boycott of South African playhouses in protest at audience segregation and was a scourge of the white minority regime.
With his usual combination of good humour and ruthless inquisitiveness, the seasoned provocateur and scourge of "Stupid White Men " travels the US attempting to discover what exactly it is that draws America to guns and violence.
Central to the bill's 1882 passage were political attacks on Chinese immigrants that labeled them "unassimilable" and portrayed them as economic threats to white Americans and a filthy scourge on society.
