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Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some companies made substantial commitments to racial equity by establishing dedicated diversity, equity, and inclusion teams. [55] In early 2024, the Washington Post reported that there is a trend in corporate America to reduce DEI positions and delegate the work to external consultants. [ 55 ]
The latest example occurred when John Marshall, the chief equity officer of Jefferson County Public Schools, dared to deliver an opinion on the condition of Black people in Kentucky.
For example, it is possible to find references to "court-ordered integration" from sources such as the Detroit News, [5] PBS, [6] or even Encarta. [7] These same sources also use the phrase "court-ordered desegregation", apparently with exactly the same meaning; [ 8 ] [ 9 ] the Detroit News uses both expressions interchangeably in the same article.
The same study found that throughout Obama's presidency, there was a continually increasing negative relationship between racial prejudice and support for racial equality policies such as equal opportunity employment, school desegregation, etc. [16] Therefore, although the true percentage of American's who believe in a biological basis for race ...
A few months later, multiple Idaho lawmakers were unable to support a resolution to condemn racism following a racist incident in Coeur d’Alene when a group of people yelled racial slurs at the ...
Prejudice plus power attempts to separate forms of racial prejudice from the word racism, which is to be reserved for institutional racism. [19] Critics point out that an individual can not be institutionally racist, because institutional racism (sometimes referred to as systemic racism) only refers to institutions and systems, hence the name. [20]
Color-blind racism refers to "contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics." [5] The types of practices that take place under color blind racism are "subtle, institutional, and apparently nonracial." [5] Those practices are not racially overt in nature such as racism under slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws. Instead ...
About half of the American public believes that federal and state governments and powerful U.S. institutions need to do more to address inequities caused by structural racism, according to an ...