Mr. Odome, the school safety agent, said, "Seeing that wall helps me understand discrimination".
"No, not getting Christmasy-enough Christmas cups does not mean you understand discrimination".
In polls, large majorities between the ages of 18 and 34 support marriage equality, and when I talk to parents of teenagers, many tell me their children simply don't understand discrimination against homosexuals.
In addition, debate exists over the legitimacy of including sexual orientation among the other categories traditionally protected by civil rights law, and there is an emerging literature examining issues of how best to understand discrimination based on disability.
But the question of whether we are judging Obama based on his racial character (and not just his skin color) has implications for how we understand discrimination and anti-discrimination law.
If the last 50 years has taught us anything, it is that laws can create an atmosphere where employers understand discrimination is no longer tolerated, but our work is not yet done.
Thus understood, structural discrimination is, as a conceptual matter, necessarily indirect, although, as empirical matter, direct discrimination is (almost) always part of the story of how structural discrimination came to be and continues to exist.
At the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village, the vice president told more than 200 supporters in hushed tones that he understood the discrimination many homosexual citizens face and vowed that this was the year to begin ending discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Discrimination Believe it or not, children do understand what discrimination is, and have more than likely experienced some form of unjust prejudicial treatment on the playground.
She helped children understand the discrimination and the bullying faced by people with learning disabilities and how these might be countered.
