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Post by PapaEZRA on May 6, 2005 10:31:07 GMT -5
Hate Crimes: Congress defines as a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim because of the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability or sexual orientation of that person.
Affirmative Action: Minority applicants are preferentially hired to make up for past discrimination. The equivalent negative term is ‘Reverse Discrimination’. Candidates discuss whether ‘preference’ implies a fixed ‘quota’.
Racial Profiling: Also known as ‘Driving While Black’. Law enforcement practice of using race to decide which motorists to stop.
Redlining: Practice where banks draw lines around certain low income and minority neighborhoods. The banks then refuse to lend to those neighborhoods.
Bilingual education: Government requirement that U.S. public schools teach children in their native languages. Since 1974, all schools that accept federal funding must provide special language programs.
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