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Example sentences for: racial

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There were previously unthinkable triumphs: protests at Birmingham and Selma, Ala., that helped topple Jim Crow; a quarter-million Americans gathering in Washington to demand racial equality; black activists and Northern white volunteers registering hordes of black voters; a civil-rights act outlawing racial discrimination, passed despite a three-month Senate filibuster.
Government-mandated integration is wrong, he writes, because any endorsement of racial preferences is immoral.
Shelby Steele in the WSJ argues that King's rhetorical prowess made whites ashamed about this country's racial history, unwittingly encouraging liberal whites to feel "responsible" for blacks, which prevents blacks from becoming truly free.
Segregation was not simply a matter of racial classification (or "thinking by race," as Justice Antonin Scalia has written) but part of a complex system of racial subordination whose political, economic, and social elements all reinforced one another.
The individualist ideal in America lives side by side with powerful notions of racial obligation.