Posts Tagged ‘racism’

Racism is…

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Racism is discrimination against a person or persons on the basis of race. Racism takes many forms, ranging from the explicit (bigoted comments from a single person) to the unconscious (unintentionally discounting a job applicant because of an ethnic-sounding name) to the collective and systematized (segregation in education, laws designed to promote the well-being of one race over another, the privileging of white employees).