systemic racism

The inspiration stemmed from the widespread conversations about microaggressions and systemic racism prompted by George Floyd’s murder in 2020.

Prohibiting practices like that is the sort of fundamentally fair, commonsense approach to rooting out systemic racism at which the Trump administration has taken aim through its Orwellian “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” executive order, published last month.

Then, to the dismay of Black activists who used the Games as a platform to protest systemic racism back home, Foreman paraded around the ring waving a miniature American flag.

But establishment and corporate support for changes to structures of systemic racism and racist policing proved short lived.

Appelbuam argues that systemic racism and NIMBYism are not the only factors that have led to bad outcomes for minorities.