Word: racial
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Joshua was denied his transfer because the move would have impacted the racial balance at the two schools...
...that there is some socioeconomic plan that could accomplish racial diversity,” a confident Mellen said, “but the board has rejected those alternatives...
...test of a new act is to see how well it plays in a tough room, Benedict has certainly booked himself into a doozy. In the racial memory of Western Europe, the Turks were the face of militant Islam, besieging Vienna in 1529 and 1683 and for centuries thereafter representing a kind of stock bogeyman. In 2002, after nearly a century of determinedly secularist rule, the country elected a moderate Islamist party. For many in the West, that makes Turkey simultaneously a symbol of hope (of moderation) and fear (of Islamism...
...examples of this are the relationships between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans—the latter are a greater political force, despite their inferior numbers—and West Side and South Side black politicians—the former are jealous of the latter’s influence. These intra-racial, inter-neighborhood power struggles stand in contrast to the inter-racial, intra-neighborhood clashes detailed in “There Goes the Neighborhood...
...problem that arises when people hop into a political box and sit there for decades at a time is that they unwittingly disenfranchise themselves. Armed with the knowledge that their religious, racial, or sexual orientation group is a huge bloc that will generally vote together, voters pigeonhole themselves, foolishly thinking that doing so is an effective way to influence an election. But if it’s a forgone conclusion which way a given demographic will vote, neither party has any incentive to work in any meaningful way to keep the voters they already have. After all, if the Republicans...