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Reagan's impact on the judiciary has been profound. Federal courts today are far more willing to question racial and ethnic preferences. Mandatory busing for school desegregation is now a museum piece. Court rulings in criminal cases are far more likely to favor law enforcement. Laws once prohibited even moments of silence in classrooms and remedial education for the underprivileged in sectarian schools. Now school vouchers for use in private schools, both secular and sectarian, hold up in courts...
...public. In meetings, administrators consistently argued that the community just needed to trust them to make the right decisions. After one of the meetings, a graduate student mentioned to HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley that there had been several allegations of racial profiling by HUPD officers...
Needless to say, the graduate student and I were no less worried. When armed police officers are accused of racial profiling, the public deserves to know about the allegations—especially since in the past decade there have been lawsuits against HUPD charging both racial and sex discrimination...
...shows how economics can be used very constructively to think about racial and ethnic hatred not as some historical given, but as a phenomenon instigated by political entrepreneurs who used hatred for their own ends,” says Andrei Shleifer ’82, the Jones professor of economics. “It’s some of the most innovative research in economics done in a long time...
...says that as she learned more about what she called systemic injustices against people in Taiwan, she became increasingly interested in broader issues of racial and ethnic prejudice in the United States as well...