Sentences with phrase «on racial group»

Rather than the courts focusing on the differential treatment on the basis of race, a substantive equality approach focuses on the impact of that treatment on the racial group concerned.

Your views on this subject should be irrelevant in your consideration for promotion, just as your views on any racial group should be irrelevant.

Known as «disparate impact» discrimination, the problem is that blanket policies may disproportionately exclude protected classes (based on racial groups, gender, or one of several other categories) from employment because the reason for exclusion is more common in a certain group.

12 Three applications for s10 in relation to native title might arise: (i) a State law forbids enjoyment of a human right or fundamental freedom, such as a right to property or freedom from the arbitrary deprivation of property, and the burden falls on all racial groups; (ii) a State law provides for extinguishment or impairment of land titles but provides for compensation only in respect of non-native title; (iii) a State law extinguishes or impairs only native title and leaves other land titles intact.

A major concern of Indigenous peoples, that is shared by many non Indigenous Australians, (which has similar force on all racial groups) is the ability of the Commonwealth Parliament to:

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For years different groups of Native Americans have challenged the continued registration of the trademark on the grounds that it is, effectively, a derogatory racial slur.

PHILADELPHIA — Lawyers for an investigative reporting organization filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Philadelphia region's main transit agency after it refused to run ads about the group's stories on racial disparities in mortgage lending.

«No place for racial hatred or extremism in @USMC,» Gen. Robert Neller, the Marine Corps commandant, tweeted Tuesday, referencing former Marine recruiter Dillon Ulysses, who is believed to have been tied to the white supremacist group, Vanguard America, multiple news outlets reported on Wednesday.

Our pipeline of managing partners continues to diversify, and we are on target in the next ten years to have a partners group that mirrors the racial and ethnic demographic makeup of our county on the 2020 census and affirm our aim to be a truly anti-racist organization.

The group wrote in an email to Nextdoor earlier this week that the changes gave them «a sense of encouragement that you are committed to checking the negative impacts of your platform» but «we are doubtful that these changes alone will reduce racial profiling on Nextdoor or impact the incessant harm inflicted on peoples of color.»

And now some groups are still trying to lay blame for something no one can prove ever even happened on specific racial groups who may or may not be the descendants of a small group of priests who may or may not have conspired to have a certain carpenters son murdered.

You wouldn't build a similar report asking about the proclivities of a racial or ethnic group based on the actions of one group member.

Bigot traditionally hatred of a group of people, especially a racial, regional, or religious group, based on preconceived notions about said group.

In the 20th century major ethnic groups and even racial groups began to be represented on the national political stage and the election of the first Catholic president in 1960 marked the crossing of an important symbolic barrier.

It is noteworthy that hardly any writers on globalization, whatever their ideology, accentuate or even refer to this basic reality of the world distribution of land among the racial groupings.

Stung by decades of controversy over its monitoring of antiwar and civil rights groups, the FBI has been wary of post-9 / 11 initiatives that would draw criticism that its anti-terrorism efforts are based on racial profiling of Muslims.

Especially insightful is her comment that anything written on the subject will trigger, axiomatically, cries of insensitivity, or worse, pure racism, from the racial advocacy groups.

We see the roots of wrong (Genesis 3:16 - 19) replay on the news each day — tensions between men and women; parents and children; brother and brother; differing religious, racial, ethnic and socio - economic groups.

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

The result is that the black alliance within the Democratic party is not with other racial minorities but with ideologically based groupings» feminists, gays, unions» who are now divorced from the values of the party's traditional base, not to mention those of the black public (Jesse Jackson, for example, flip - flopped on almost all these issues once he decided to run for the nomination).

Growth groups can also be used to build bridges of communication and empathy across the barriers that divide mankind — the ethnic, racial, national, and political differences that isolate us from our fellow human beings, During several workshops on counseling in India, my wife and I led growth groups for participants.

He made generalizations about the English that, if he had made them about practically any other group, would have landed him in court on a charge of incitement to racial hatred, while he berated the Welsh for their insufficiently militant nationalism, supinely preferring their own individual material advancement and comfort to the cause.

On the other hand, young people are more apt than their elders to break through the patterns of racial discrimination if there are democratic and Christian influences upon their thinking and friendly group contacts are possible with those of another race.

It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as «any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.»

Second, reconciliation focuses on racial reconciliation, bringing together people from different ethnic groups in relationships that reflect the vision of Revelation 7:9, a great multitude of people from every tribe, nation and tongue, united in worship of Christ.

Puckett is just as fixated on other racial groups — «We might call a spook a spook, unless he's a spick» — and he also knows that a white running back is a dying breed in the NFL.

That's not surprising after the ESPN article characterized most of the owners» concerns as squarely on business, ratings, and sponsorships, and seemed to show the group as dismissive of the concerns of racial inequality that prompted protests in the first place.

(This is first in part of a new series on the blog called «Author Interview» where I speak with authors of children's books — books that reflect upon Muslim values, fosters family relations, talk against racism, inclusivity of all racial / ethnic groups and overall gives a positive message to our young -LSB-...]

Research on the right - to - rent scheme by several migrant rights groups found evidence of increased racial discrimination against tenants.

On the same day, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill announced that the police department has created a 30 - day working group to address the racial disparities in marijuana - related arrests.

Trump's surprise rise to become the GOP presidential nominee, built largely on a willingness to openly criticize minority groups and tap into long - simmering racial divisions, has reenergized white supremacist groups and drawn them into mainstream American politics like nothing seen in decades.

Additionally, I am concerned by the significant discrepancy between increased spending on Whites / Caucasians versus all other racial groups.

Mr. Loeb's comment also directly hit on the long - simmering racial tensions in Albany, where Mr. Klein's group has helped block Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the black lawmaker whom Mr. Loeb attacked in his Facebook post, from ascending to the post of majority leader.

Some 86 percent of people arrested on marijuana charges last year were black or Latino even though all racial groups use the drug at similar rates, officials have said.

An eight - year legal fight over racial discrimination by New York City in a proposed Brooklyn development is expected to be settled today, after community groups and the de Blasio administration agreed on a new plan for affordable housing for the site.

We have also brought on board highly qualified leaders from a diversity of ethnic and racial groups — more action.

Widely - known for unearthing the region's African - American History, her work transcended racial issues, broadening awareness on the experience and impact of many overlooked groups.

If a policy has a greater impact on racial minority groups, it must pass a stricter «compelling interest» test.

During Mr. de Blasio's run for public advocate four years ago, Ms. McCray sat in on focus groups in which minority voters talked about the strong appeal of the family's racial diversity — images of which Mr. de Blasio featured prominently in campaign brochures and mailers.

According to the poll, 78 percent of New Yorkers are not impatient with Cuomo's delay of any announcement on his possible plans to challenge Paterson, with the high level of patience consistent among all political and racial groups and in every region of the state.

Over time, neighborhoods on the industrial west side changed from solidly African American to Latino, Asian — many of them refugees from war - torn Southeast Asia — and other racial and ethnic groups.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

But, she pointedly adds, these «objective» cutoffs disproportionately exclude from the sciences members of underrepresented groups, including women and non-Asian racial minorities, who, on average, do less well than white and Asian men on the GRE, especially on the all - important math section.

Further research is needed to determine if there are similar variations within racial and ethnic groups depending on their country or region of origin.

The system also uses keyword and textual analysis to quantify and track the level of violence and racial hatred expressed on a Web site or forum — a measure that can be used to determine which groups might be most threatening and to alert investigators to follow up.

In addition to groups that come together because of racial, ethnic background, and gender connections, affinity groups also bring together individuals based on country of origin, religion, physical disabilities, military service, age, sexual orientation, and many other commonalities.

Chet Susslin / National Journal The Supreme Court's decision upholding racial preferences in public - university admissions drew broad support on Thursday from AAAS and other scientific and academic groups that...

But new research suggests that people's racial biases make them more likely to leave money on the table when a windfall is not split evenly between groups.

«Investigating racial disparities could provide insight into the overall alcohol - sleep relationship, susceptibility differences in sleep homeostasis / architecture across groups, and its subsequent impact on health outcomes.»

Harvard's Steven Pinker, the celebrated author of The Blank Slate and an expert on the evolution of language and the mind, addressed that point in an interview in New Scientist magazine: «People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent.»