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color bar

NOUN
discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people
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The most useful change to the statement is a color bar chart that shows the estimated monthly retirement payments you’d get each year starting at age 62 when you first become eligible.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021

Dienderen’s section, a camera tracks through an art school campus to a television studio where it finds a Black woman, a white man and a color bar.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

His use of the color bar refers to calibrating color on the screen, which helps determine what and who is visible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020

What other thought does the man who shattered baseball’s color bar need to leave us with?

From Washington Times ● Jun. 25, 2014

That first morning at the firm, a pleasant young white secretary, Miss Lieberman, took me aside and said, “Nelson, we have no color bar here at the law firm.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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