As she describes it, Beth Jacobson and her fellow loan officers at Wells Fargo Bank "rode the stagecoach from hell" for a decade, systematically singling out blacks in Baltimore and suburban Maryland for high-interest subprime mortgages.
That sounds crazy, but it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise: for decades, we've systematically razed nearly every patch of land we've been able to in an effort to create more room for industry, technology and people, without really paying attention to what's being lost in the process.
We've spent more than a decade systematically exploring the sources, nature, and impacts of certainty.
As the well-known solid hydrogen storage materials, metal hydrides (MHs) have been developed systematically for decades.
Conditions in the shantytowns have been systematically ignored for decades.
Exploiting or even seriously assessing that potential has been systematically suppressed for decades as a fatal competitor to nuclear power.
Rohingya people have been systematically persecuted for decades by the Burmese government, which, contrary to historical evidence, regards them as illegal migrants from Bangladesh and restricts their citizenship rights and access to government services.
The IIFC now provides a safe haven for creatives who have been systematically quashed for decades, limited to creating propaganda films for the government.
Take this young century alone: It wasn't enough in 2002, when the Boston Globe's Spotlight team showed that the predominantly Catholic city's children had been preyed on for decades and that officials had systematically tried to hide the egregious sins of its clergy.
In his 1933 writings, Du Bois embraced socialism, but asserted that "[c]olored labor has no common ground with white labor", a controversial position that was rooted in Du Bois's dislike of American labor unions, which had systematically excluded blacks for decades.
