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Racist in sentence

505 examples of Racist in a sentence

And I realized that what I was seeing was the end result of our racist policies that had caused mass incarceration.
I mean, if I think the people who didn't vote like me are stupid racist monsters who don't deserve to call themselves Americans, alright, fine, I'm not being nice, I get it.
They're mere physical manifestations of racist housing practices such as redlining, [Denying services to people of color] restrictive covenants and outright terror.
I had to move four times during high school, and my freshman year I went to an extremely racist high school.
I had finished school and I was there to be a tribal attorney and represent tribes across the nation, representing on the Hill, and I saw immediately why racist imagery matters.
You don't wake up one day no longer a racist.
Just like if you're a white person and another white person makes a racist comment, you'd hope, I hope, that white people would interrupt that racist enactment by a fellow white person.
Rockists, who are racist but only about rock music, constantly use the argument to — That's a real word.
There were even reports of racist epithets being thrown at some of the participants of the gay rights rallies that took place after the election.
But when hundreds of thousands of Chinese started showing up in my country, working hard on the railroads and the mines and then kicking back in the evening just like they had in the old country with a few puffs on that opium pipe, that's when you saw the first drug prohibition laws in California and Nevada, driven by racist fears of Chinese transforming white women into opium-addicted sex slaves.
The first cocaine prohibition laws, similarly prompted by racist fears of black men sniffing that white powder and forgetting their proper place in Southern society.
"Uncle Joe is racist."
My mom then had this brilliant idea that I should go to a girls school because they were less racist.
So therefore, the only thing that I can do is take my collective intellect and my energy and my ideas and my experiences and dedicate myself to challenge, at any point in time, anything that looks like it might be racist.
I'm not saying that in all of you, there's a secret sexist or racist or ageist lurking within, waiting to get out.
If a newspaper ran some racist or homophobic column, we realized we could do something about it.
And I sat up in my bed, and I put the pillow behind my head, and then I thought, I'm not entirely sure that joke was intended to be racist.
You know, another woman on Twitter that night, a New Statesman writer Helen Lewis, she reviewed my book on public shaming and wrote that she Tweeted that night, "I'm not sure that her joke was intended to be racist," and she said straightaway she got a fury of Tweets saying, "Well, you're just a privileged bitch, too."
As soon as I say, "We are the powerful people abusing our power now," I get people saying, "Well you must be a racist too."
It's possible for people to be in Whitopia not for racist reasons, though it has racist outcomes.
Well, I was born in South Africa and my parents were imprisoned for resisting the racist regime.
I have worked with young people who manifest hope and promise, despite being at the effect of racist discipline practices in their schools, and police violence in their communities.
And I have no trouble imagining that after spending weeks or even months as a second-grade citizen, living on the streets or in a horrible makeshift camp with a stupid, racist name like "The Jungle," most of us would be willing to do just about anything.
Now, in 2009, Michelle Obama was the victim of a racist campaign, where people set out to insult her through her search results.
However, Google didn't settle for that this time, they just thought, "That's racist and it's a bad search result and we're going to go back and clean that up manually.
The Atlantic slave trade also contributed to the development of racist ideology.
That complete meltdown was made even worse by the most tragic element of it: levels of xenophobia and racist abuse in the streets of Britain at a level that I have never seen before in my lifetime.
Until the mid-1960s, Canada followed an explicitly racist immigration policy.
Those people aren't particularly racist when they feel as through there's not a threat to our social and moral order.
But if you prime them experimentally by thinking we're coming apart, people are getting more different, then they get more racist, homophobic, they want to kick out the deviants.
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