"The politics of being mayor at a time when racial polarization was taking place put him in a very unpopular position, " said Rep. Charles Rangel, the long-serving Harlem Democrat who backed Mr. Koch in 1977 but supported Mr. Dinkins in 1989.
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Poor people deserve safe housing as much as anybody else, and it takes more than a little chutzpah to sue the city for racial discrimination when it is trying to improve the living conditions of minority residents.
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Chief SIZER: We've just gone through our in-service training annually, and we had instructors who really talked about that, clueing officers in that disrespectful communication is often interpreted by minorities as racial bias when in fact the officer may be acting like a jerk, and maybe he or she routinely acts like a jerk.
Also, not all black homeowners increase the racial wealth gap when they buy homes.
The EHRC was formed in 2006 when the previous Commission for Racial Equality expanded to cover issues of age, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and the promotion of human rights.
The sanctions come less than a week after AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng left the field mid-match when he was the victim of racial abuse during a friendly with lower league side Pro Patria in Italy.
Actress Nicole Kidman refused to use an offensive racial epithet in a film when requested to do so by its director, her British co-star has revealed.
In a series of decisions in the past four years, the Chief Justice has expressed the view that the time has now passed when the Court should allow systemic remedies for racial discrimination.
When voters are asked if they want to ban racial preferences in the public sphere, they generally say yes.
In a recent paper, Yarrow Dunham at Princeton and colleagues explored when children begin to have negative thoughts about other racial groups.
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Considered the founding father of South Africa's democracy, Mandela became an international figure when he endured 27 years in prison for fighting racial segregation.
The defense felt it scored big victories when several witnesses impeached Fuhrman and when the jury heard audio of Fuhrman uttering two racial epithets.
It is true that children of every racial group do better, on average, when their parents have more education.
Something about him fills a gap in American politics: he seems not to be faking when he talks of mending America's religious and racial divides.
Many states practice it through the initiative or referendum process, and while it is used by all political stripes, the left shows no respect for the majority when it sides with the right on questions such as racial preferences, tax limitations and (at least until recently) same-sex marriage.
Teacher Aja Kweliona, her commentary really talks about the need for, perhaps, racial sensitivity training, or some kind of intervention, when teachers or administrators don't seem to respect students of color.
One intriguing finding, when comparing the limited set of data on prisoners with people from similar racial and economic groups outside cell walls, is that the prisoners appear to be healthier.
But, regardless of how distasteful it is to well-educated and upwardly mobile young liberals, racial animosity can be an extremely potent political force, particularly when it is paired with questions about the redistribution of wealth.
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On February 18, 2009, Eric Holder offered a similarly tonic and provocative commentary on race when he begged us to cease from our cowardice and come out from our racial cocoons to confront the business at hand.
She gained attention when she won a case against five right wing politicians1 enacting a Guatemalan law against racial discrimination.
But, even when the verdict is delivered, Jasper will be left to bind the wounds of racial distrust that Mr Byrd's killing reopened.
And even when you've got a police officer who has a fine track record on racial sensitivity, interactions between police officers and the African-American community can sometimes be fraught with misunderstanding.
How do these issues tend to play out when a student either alleges, or is proven to have been, abused on a racial basis by his or her school?
Considered the founding father of South Africa's democracy, Mandela became an international figure when he endured 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid, the country's system of racial segregation.
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International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination commemorates events on 21 March 1960, in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police opened fire and killed young students peacefully demonstrating against the apartheid "pass laws".
"When five black people appear to be shot by a white person, then the immediate reaction is there is a racial component, " Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett told CNN.
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