Deeply rooted structural discrimination continues to hold down women and people of colour, and more than one fifth of all American children now live in poverty".
By describing herself as an atypical Roma she emerges as a free individual, while they [the Roma] appear to be more dependent and deeply rooted in discrimination.
During the FEPC debate, Taft rooted employment discrimination in both prejudice (long-held beliefs) and customs (longstanding practices); focusing on customs, he refused to brand those discriminatory practices as criminal even though he conceded that they were "contrary" to American ideals.
"Throughout history, we have seen the unjust consequences of decisions and policies rooted in discrimination," Holder said.
Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation and despair.
The White House chose to get involved in the Prop 8 debate because they had "seen the unjust consequences of decisions and policies rooted in discrimination".
I spent a year waiting for America to be America again, and in that year, I watched as some of my colleagues went from anger to acceptance and finally, even, defense of a policy they had initially considered ridiculous and rooted in discrimination.
Ilan Meyer, a senior scholar at UCLA's School of Law, offers an explanation for these disparities through his "Theory of Minority Stress," suggesting that these health inequities are rooted in discrimination, with negative behaviors acting as coping mechanisms for repeated exposure to stigma-related stress.
So many of the social norms we've been taught are rooted in discrimination, and so many young people are taught to feel ashamed of who they are, raised to believe that 'there's something wrong with them,' that 'they're not normal' or 'not who they should be.' Those types of lies are really destructive, which is why they must be exposed and debunked".
The inequalities, rooted in discrimination, have as a consequence the violation of the rights of children, impeding their complete development, both on an individual level and a community level.
