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Racial discrimination, legally, had existed for 100 years, from 1865 at the end of the War Between the States, the Civil War, all the way up to the 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson got the bills passed for equal rights.
But during that time, there were many white people that didn't think that racial discrimination was okay, but they stayed quiet, because they enjoyed the privileges of better jobs, unique access to jury duty, better schools, and everything else, and that's the same thing that exists today, because the average man really doesn't care.
I would say the best thing that we could do today is for the women in the powerful nations like this one, and where you come from, Europe and so forth, who have influence and who have freedom to speak and to act, need to take the responsibility on yourselves to be more forceful in demanding an end to racial discrimination against girls and women all over the world.
In 1993, around 11,000 families and cops fled Los Angeles after the L.A. racial unrest, for North Idaho, and they've built an expatriated community.
We don't think we're better than you, we just want to be away from you." (Laughter) Indeed, most white people in Whitopia are neither white supremacists or white separatists; in fact, they're not there for explicitly racial reasons at all.
Historically, we've been pulled into those spaces where we have not necessarily provided public safety but have enforced long, historical legislative racial desegregation.
The guards call them "balancers," meaning they help balance out the racial numbers, in hopes of deflecting law suits.
Thus, slavery in Europe and the Americas acquired a racial basis, making it impossible for slaves and their future descendants to attain equal status in society.
Which racial identity I check has nothing to do with my genes.
And he might have added that that less than one percent of genetic difference doesn't fall into racial boxes.
He promoted the racial concept of disease, that people of different races suffer from different diseases and experience common diseases differently.
Its focus on innate racial differences in disease diverts attention and resources from the social determinants that cause appalling racial gaps in health: lack of access to high-quality medical care; food deserts in poor neighborhoods; exposure to environmental toxins; high rates of incarceration; and experiencing the stress of racial discrimination.
In another example, an analysis of Florida's death penalty cases seemed to reveal no racial disparity in sentencing between black and white defendants convicted of murder.
And a lot of this is about racial disparities and institutionalized racism, things that we're not supposed to have in this country anymore, certainly not in the practice of medicine or public health.
But she also felt that these artworks memorialized the victims of these killings as well as other victims of racial violence throughout US history.
There are demonstrations and even riots in the streets because of racial injustice.
In our history books, for instance, and in our collective consciousness, men are the public faces and spokespersons for the 1960s struggle for racial justice in the United States.
Just about the moment we were preparing to celebrate our post-racial future, our political conditions became the most racial they've been in the last 50 years.
At present, I would argue that the racial struggles we are experiencing are clashes over time and space.
These racial struggles are battles over those who are perceived to be space-takers and those who are perceived to be world-makers.
Right now there's a bill in congress about measuring racial inequality.
The draft law says that government money should not be used to collect data on racial segregation.
When I started my career, many believed that it was simply about racial differences in income and education.
And the gap by education for both whites and blacks is even larger than the racial gap.
One of America's best-kept secrets is how residential segregation is the secret source that creates racial inequality in the United States.
In 2015, black families still earn 59 cents for every dollar of income that white families receive, and the racial gaps in wealth are even more stunning.
The fact is, racism is producing a truly rigged system that is systematically disadvantaging some racial groups in the United States.
An idea, individual liberties, say, or racial equality, can generate boundless amounts of power if it motivates enough people to change their thinking and actions.
On the way over here, somebody was telling me about Ilie Nastase, who said some very unkind, inappropriate, dare I say racial things.
In a time of racial and social tension, embracing this movement and others like this help us to rise above the confines of the status quo.
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