They claimed that the promises of Reconstruction had never been fulfilled and that affirmative-action and anti-poverty programs had failed to erase institutionalized discrimination and inner-city poverty.
The Burmese state, without any challenge from opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has institutionalized discrimination against the Rohingya, allowed hate speech to flourish, encouraged islamophobia and granted impunity to perpetrators of the violence.
AZHAR HUSSAIN Plano, Tex., April 12 , 2011To the Editor: Re "Government-Enforced Bigotry in France" (editorial, April 12): Communities that require women to cloak themselves in full-face veils have institutionalized discrimination and handicapped half of their population.
The crackdown here has won a tactical and perhaps ephemeral victory through torture, arrests, job dismissals and the blunt tool of already institutionalized discrimination against the island's Shiite Muslim majority.
And I am watching as you defend institutionalized discrimination.
Bank president Jim Kim called the law "institutionalized discrimination" and said such laws harm development.
It's crucial that we all make an effort to understand the lives and experiences of people who are facing institutionalized discrimination at the hands of the Trump administration.
Many now argue that the institutionalized discrimination experienced by 700 Palestinian children prosecuted in Israel's military courts each year is unsustainable and must end.
Congress's repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was a watershed moment that ended institutionalized discrimination unjustly targeting gay, lesbian and bisexual service members.
Hiding behind the claim that the purpose of the Civil Rights Act was simply an attempt to redress institutionalized discrimination both misses the point and is entirely wrong.
