How to Use white supremacy in a Sentence

white supremacy

noun
  • The lightning bolts are still used as a sign of white supremacy.
    Aria Jones, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Columbus Day has become the residue of white supremacy.
    Noé López, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • This story to me has always summed up the power of white supremacy: Choose a life of bondage or refuse and limp.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • And isn’t freedom from white supremacy worth some level of conflict?
    Time, 3 Dec. 2022
  • There were days when the only thing that kept me going was knowing that each step was one toward progress, a boot to the granite face of white supremacy.
    Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And look, there is a, a serious threat of white supremacy in parts of the Republican Party, and this is the guy who has been to East Palestine.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The project was born into a world of rising white supremacy and white nationalist rhetoric.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • All throughout, Jason Robert Brown’s score keeps reminding you of that melody, the sound of the myths of white supremacy embedded deep in red clay.
    Vulture, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Context: The deadly Unite the Right rally opened many Americans' eyes to the rising threat of white supremacy in this country.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Leniency for Davis also bolstered the cause of white supremacy.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Her stand-up mocks the myths of white supremacy and other human hierarchies.
    Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Armstrong compared today's specter of white supremacy to the mythical Hydra, whose heads, when cut off, grow two more in one’s place.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Barry Chin/Globe Staff Pressley said the greatest threat to democracy is white supremacy.
    Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • Soon, the leaders of the white South put together a new narrative to explain their failure and to maintain racial control and white supremacy.
    Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
  • The film very effectively underscores the white supremacy at play.
    Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The America that tolerated white supremacy in their policies and laws is the same country that wants to remind us how such forms of hate are still legal via free speech.
    Ernest Owens, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Racist roots: How Confederate migration spread white supremacy in the West.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
  • Not just because Selma, like so many Alabama towns built in the tradition of white supremacy, has struggled to find herself.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 5 Mar. 2023
  • There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy.
    NBC News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • What’s more horrifying than the lasting effects of white supremacy?
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 24 July 2023
  • The setbacks endured by Black citizens of a nation committed to white supremacy are what make the nation’s story.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023
  • But in a scant 3 years in office, Biden has single-handedly destroyed any illusion of white supremacy.
    Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 1 Sep. 2022
  • There were members of the Ku Klux Klan holding statewide elective office and using the rhetoric of white supremacy to incite violence and suppress Black voter turnout.
    Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Many of us have experienced these products of white supremacy firsthand.
    Essence, 11 Oct. 2023
  • This is a belief that is the core of antisemitism, of white supremacy, of homophobia, of transphobia and intolerance of any kind.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2023
  • And yet, by far the most conspicuous remaining symbol of white supremacy on Capitol Hill still exists.
    Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Mollie and the other Osage have oil money, and the film is about the casual white supremacy that allowed many Osage murders to go unsolved for several years.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • In the vacuum of context Guy, who is not white, has had assumptions placed on him that included accusations of white supremacy.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
  • D’Souza’s politics, rather than argue for what ought to be commonly held rights, take the dismantling of white supremacy and systems of oppression as their baseline.
    Larissa Pham, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
  • The usefulness and power of these places rests in their ability to tell multiple stories at once: white supremacy and Black resistance, loss and hope, slavery and freedom.
    Whitney Nell Stewart, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2024

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