All 16 Uses of
discriminate
in
Black Like Me
- What is it like to experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control?†
- First, the discrimination against him.†
- Second, and almost more grievous, his discrimination against himself; his contempt for the blackness that he associates with his suffering; his willingness to sabotage his fellow Negroes because they are part of the blackness he has found so painful.†
- I have learned that men in uniform, particularly officers, rarely descend to show discrimination, perhaps because of the integration of the armed forces.
*discrimination = unfair treatment of different groups of people differently
- Nonviolent and prayerful resistance to discrimination is the keynote.†
- Though segregation and discrimination still prevail and still work a hardship, great strides have been made—strides that must give hope to every observer of the South.†
- I had spent weeks at work, studying, correlating statistics, going through reports, none of which actually help to reveal the truth of what it is like to be discriminated against.†
- At the end he asked me about discrimination in the North.†
- In areas outside of the South, students on campuses were deeply concerned and picketed local businesses that continued the practice of discrimination.†
- A major civil rights bill was passed in 1964, and if it was controversial, it at least nullified a lot of local discriminatory ordinances.†
- Economic discrimination was rampant all over the land.†
- Up until that time black thinking had been focused on the dream of an integrated society as the ultimate solution to discrimination and racial injustice.†
- Black people were shown that their dollars lost strength when spent in those stores because the profits went into white banks, which would not discriminate against black people for TV and car loans, but would discriminate against them for small-business or housing loans.†
- Black people were shown that their dollars lost strength when spent in those stores because the profits went into white banks, which would not discriminate against black people for TV and car loans, but would discriminate against them for small-business or housing loans.†
- With this understanding, black people in Chicago began to make the rounds of such stores, saying in effect that if the stores expected to sell another leaf of lettuce to black people, the stores had to hire black personnel, including black people at management level; and furthermore, they had to bank the proceeds of that particular ghetto operation in black banks which would not discriminate against black people in loans.†
- Another, a sociologist, still involved in the study of discrimination in medicine and medical schools, recently told a professor at a California medical school who was proud of the achievement of black medical students there, "Well, I hope when you get sick you call one of them."†
Definition:
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(discriminate as in: suffered discrimination) to treat people of different groups differently -- especially unfair treatment due to race, religion or gender