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The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
Waxman warns against being too alarmist about whether it presages the decline of American democracy, a la Germany in the 1930s, as America still has strong democratic institutions.
America today is not a racist country, but it is a country where racism still exists. There’s a wide distinction between the two. Kerr: America is not a racist nation — but it's not perfect ...
In the context of racism in the United States, racism against African Americans dates back to the colonial era, and it continues to be a persistent issue in American society in the 21st century. From the arrival of the first Africans in early colonial times until after the American Civil War , most African Americans were enslaved .
2007 report found significant racial disparities in 300,000 credit files matched with Social Security records with African American scores being half that of white, non-Hispanics. [119] 2010 study found that African American in Illinois zip codes had scores of less than 620 at a rate of 54.2%.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Mississippi Department of Archives and HistoryThis month marks the 60th anniversary of a group of ...
Gay African-American men in partnerships are also six times more likely to live in poverty than gay white male couples. [12] Some have made the controversial claim that the racist treatment of African-Americans amounts to genocide, elaborated on in Black genocide with foci on slavery, Jim Crow, and other racist institutions in the U.S.
Voir dire is believed, at least by many judges and prosecutors, to be the best method of flushing out racial prejudice, he said, noting defense lawyers are given wide latitude in asking questions ...