Sentences with phrase «discriminate against minority»

Equal protection means that the government can not discriminate against minority groups.

Nor do I doubt that some of America's 100,000 - plus schools discriminate against minority children.

Bringing in a G&T program starting in the 3rd grade by using a screening method proven to discriminate against minority applicants is an obvious attempt to attract an affluent demographic to the traditionally low - performing school.

«I just want to say I believe that Gigi Li did not intentionally discriminate against any minority group,» Mendez said.

«Based upon enrollment numbers, the district is politically competitive and does not discriminate against any minority group.

Nationally, every state is prohibited from legislating racial discrimination, legislating literacy tests, and other devices historically used to discriminate against minority groups.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

Since when is it okay to discriminate against minorities?

Judge Richard Posner, author of the opinion, wrote, «Homosexuals are among the most stigmatized, misunderstood, and discriminated against minorities.»

The Vulcan Society plans to put the Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Charles Rangel and former Gov. David Paterson on the witness stand at next month's civil retrial to prove NYC intentionally discriminated against minority applicants.

THE BRONX — The New York Botanical Garden discriminated against minority students and made a «lowball» offer to avoid hiring an observant Jew, according a civil rights lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday.

But opponents, including Democratic lawmakers and civil rights groups, argue that they discriminate against minorities and lead to voter suppression.

The United States on Wednesday sued JPMorgan Chase, accusing the bank of discriminating against minority borrowers by charging them higher rates and fees on home mortgage loans between 2006 and...

Speaker after speaker attacked the activists who claim police unfairly target and discriminate against minorities, dismissing them as ungrateful hooligans and radicals.

He sees political correctness as an insidious product of the kind of paternalistic racism that discards truth in favour of generally held truisms, a crutch for well - meaning racists who lack the wit to grasp that the basic misunderstanding of difference driving a desire to discriminate against minorities is identical to that which drives a desire to protect minorities.

This employment gap is consistent with other data [xx] showing that the Great Recession hit black college graduates much harder than white college graduates, as well as with evidence [xxi] that employers are more likely to discriminate against minorities in weak labor markets.

Federal civil - rights officials are weighing a complaint that the test all Texas students must pass to get a high school diploma unfairly discriminates against minority youths.

The authors of the original law were wary of administrators in local districts, many of whom were actively discriminating against minority schoolchildren.

California Assembly member Susan Bonilla's AB 934 addresses tenure, dismissal, evaluations and the Last In, First Out method of lay - offs that the bill says discriminates against minority neighborhoods.

Ever since its birth in 1867, Canada has discriminated against its minorities in order to discourage them from making Canada their home.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the New York attorney general's office can investigate whether national banks discriminated against minorities seeking mortgages.

Recently, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition asked HUD to investigate 22 lenders that impose stricter underwriting criteria than required by FHA to insure mortgages, claiming that requiring higher credit scores discriminates against minority mortgage applicants.

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.

Then the Washington, D.C., Fair Housing Council filed a complaint against him for discriminating against minorities.

The owners and operators of six federally subsidized apartment complexes in Reno, Nev., have agreed to pay $ 382,500 to settle a Fair Housing Act complaint that alleged they discriminated against minorities and families with children.

A federal judge has ordered the city of Sunnyvale, Texas, a sprawling Dallas suburb, to revise zoning ordinances that discriminate against minorities and the poor.

A New York federal court has considered whether a lawsuit brought by the government pursuant to the federal Fair Housing Act («Act») could proceed against an apartment finding service that allegedly refused to assist and / or discriminated against minority and handicapped customers.

This new evidence provides more support that BofA has been discriminating against minority communities.

In the 1930s, the Federal Housing Authority established mortgage underwriting standards that significantly discriminated against minority neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

Paxton rejected any claim that the order discriminates against Muslims while favoring Christian minorities.

It sued North Carolina over a bathroom bill it said discriminated against transgender individuals, and has challenged state voting laws that it said disenfranchised minority voters.

Female and minority software engineers at the company accused it of discriminating against them, alleging that management allowed a hostile work environment.

In 2011, the Department of Justice announced a plan to resolve claims that women and other minorities were discriminated against by the USDA in making and servicing farm loans.

Housing groups say they were able to create ads that discriminated against mothers, the disabled, and minorities.

The minority has no obligation to roll over and play dead if the majority wants to discriminate against them.

Pretty much makes SIliverman's case that atheists are the last minority in America that it's safe to discriminate against.

Its an absolute fact, they need to be non tax exempt for there non minority back door policies that heavily discriminate against those of color!

Ask random minorities «do you feel discriminated against»?

«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

They kill doctors, burn mosques, an dopenly discriminate against women and minorities.

Similarly, when people discriminate against racial minorities, or look at them negatively, they do so indefensibly, based on no defensible reason.

I didn't commit those acts, I don't approve of them, and I don't discriminate against members of minority groups.

For example, both the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been accused of ignoring or discriminating against other minorities.

> > Some conservatives, who find themselves in the minority with their > opposition to gay marriage and clergy, see themselves as being > discriminated against.

The government can, however, impose health and safety requirements on all EMPLOYERS — they can require a minimum wage, they can require that female or minority workers are not discriminated against, and so forth.

The standards were minimal, yet some educators and athletic officials felt that Proposition 48 — as it's still generally known — discriminated against underprivileged students, particularly minorities.

Blue also blundered last August, in the aftermath of the Shoal Creek controversy at the PGA Championship, when he claimed that the LPGA wasn't vulnerable on the issue of holding tournaments at clubs that discriminate against women and minorities.

We should not be allowed to discriminate against people just because they are in a minority.

Danny Dromm and Rosie Mendez expressed concern about subsidizing schools that supposedly discriminate or propagandize against sexual minorities.

CUNY was once a proud university that gave a free education and back in the 1920s through 1940s, was a haven for Jews and other minorities blatantly discriminated against by the Ivy League establishment.