Sentence examples for latent racist from inspiring English sources

Opponents of constitutional change said it would stir up latent racist tendencies.

You're not some hopeless curmudgeon, and no one could accuse you of being a latent racist: you recognise that Mr Obama is a smart young guy with a bright future, and you just think there's no reason to rush him into office when he's still wet behind the ears, when you've got a perfectly satisfactory Republican candidate right here.

Would anyone call a society non-racist if there are many antiracist laws, but in practice, people exhibit all sorts of (latent) racist behaviour?

"Is the Bush White House just full of latent racists?" Representative Tom Lantos of California, also a Democratic member of the committee, criticized Ms. McKinney's remarks about Mr. Bush and outlined his own opposition to the conference.

When the Bush administration backed out of the international conference on racism in South Africa this year because of concerns that the conference was going to criticize Israel harshly, Ms. McKinney asked if the White House was full of "latent racists," and she stayed at the conference after the American delegation left.

Christine Chism distinguishes accusations as falling into three categories: intentional racism, unconscious Eurocentric bias, and an evolution from latent racism in Tolkien's early work to a conscious rejection of racist tendencies in his late work.

"There is a latent racism".

The problem is "latent racism".

While the kids may see it as "them and the townspeople taking a stand against fascism," the townspeople generally see it as "a bunch of scary kids with weird hair leaving garbage all over the town square" and it helps push those with latent sympathies for the racists to the fore.

This leads us into discussions of structural racism, where the effects of Florida's "stand your ground" law are racist because of latent assumptions by non-black civilians, police and juries that make blacks more likely to be shot, and their killers to be exonerated.

By no means all of them are racists, blatant or latent.