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racism

noun as in prejudice against an ethnic group

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Because the neighborhood was segregated, it was secure from the dangers that racism posed.

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Elsewhere, Erivo details instances of racism and microaggressions she’s faced in professional spaces.

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This is—or used to be—the ground on which all Americans could unite across their many differences, the basis of opposition to racism, antisemitism, anti-Catholicism and other prejudices.

When Welteroth took the helm in 2016, the Black Lives Matter movement was bringing renewed attention to police brutality and systemic racism in the criminal legal system.

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They accused this tiny little country, Israel, of all the Western evils: apartheid, genocide, colonialism, racism.

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