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Racial profiling is a practice clearly racist in character. Police departments who tacitly condone racial profiling stop minorities far out of proportion to other drivers for no reason other than the color of their skin. The practice has become knows as "driving while black or brown," the only charge of which the motorists seem to be guilty. The courts have consistently maintained the unconstitutionality of the practice, with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in April that police must have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has occurred before they can stop someone on the street...
They do, and they are African Americans. The 70-year-old dean is branded as a racist, which is a bitter irony. Since graduating from Howard University as a "Negro" (black by birth, his skin is "white as snow," according to his mother), Silk has passed as a Jewish intellectual...
...then calmly assess the ensuing damage. In Tender Mercies (1978), a husband's reckless bravado during a boating trip leads to an accident that leaves his wife paralyzed. Civil Wars (1984) portrays a liberal married couple in Mississippi who receive custody of the two children of Klan-supporting, racist in-laws, killed in a car crash. In Before and After (1992), well-to-do parents discover that their son has murdered his girlfriend. In each book, the page-turning question becomes, Then what...
...often granted parole status, which allows them to apply for a work visa immediately and to petition for permanent residency after only a year. Haitians on Florida's beaches are almost guaranteed being sent home, Cubans will almost certainly be allowed to stay. Some have denounced the policy as racist. While the reason for the difference in restrictions is not exclusively linked to race, the picture these two stories paint of the difference in immigration regulation begins to smack of preferential treatment...
...with terror in the nation's capital. And when a black youth, 16-year-old Antoine Jones, was arrested Tuesday for the shooting, there was little public opposition to the DA's decision to charge him as as an adult. But could such a move have been a racist act? Maybe. On Wednesday, researchers released the most comprehensive report ever to study racial disparities in punishing youth offenders, and its findings have opened lawmakers' eyes across the nation. The study, titled "And Justice for Some," was sponsored by a host of federal agencies, private foundations and think tanks, and found...