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Racial microaggressions are still apparent, discrimination persists in the classroom
Racism is still prevalent across the nation and here at the UI in everyday life. People need to be educated and aware of what this systemic racial microaggression looks like to prevent it in the future and truly achieve diversity and inclusion in the classroom.
By Nichole Shaw
nichole-shaw@uiowa.edu
Recent movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, among others, are a cry for progressive change against discrimination targeting various minority groups. Amid everything that appears in pop culture and the news, we sometimes forget about discrimination that takes on other forms, such as unequal treatment in the workplace and the classroom. Often, discrimination in the classroom is either ignored or not even recognized at all. This is unacceptable.
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Employee sues Weis Markets, accuses it of race discrimination
WILLIAMSPORT – Weis Markets Inc. has been accused of unlawful race discrimination in employee hiring and promotions.
The allegation is made by Jason Allen, an African-American employee at the company’s Milton warehouse, in a civil rights suit filed Wednesday in U.S. Middle District Court that he wants certified a class action.
The Sunbury resident says he wants to represent all African-Americans who were not hired or promoted by Weis or subjected to a racially hostile work environment there.
“Per company policy, we do not comment on pending litigation,” Weis spokesman Dennis Curtin said.
Allen, who has been a Weis employee since 2012, claims in his complaint he repeatedly has been passed over for promotion in favor of similarly situated or less qualified Caucasians.
The discriminatory…
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Supreme Court’s Texas gerrymandering decision could set dangerous precedent on discrimination
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On Tuesday, April 24, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that asks it to determine Texas lawmakers drew legislative district lines that are racially discriminatory. Those challenging the district lines contend that Texas lawmakers purposefully diluted the voting power of African Americans and Latinos.
This Supreme Court term is all about gerrymandering, both partisan and now racial. But Abbott v. Perez is the only race-related gerrymandering case that it will hear this term. The case could help determine the political makeup of the Texas’ federal and state lawmakers. And it is the state lawmakers who will draw the district lines after the 2020 census, which could in turn determine the balance of power in Texas for the next decade. The case could also…
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Grandview Golf Club joins Starbucks in racial discrimination talk
Sandra Thompson submitted this video, claiming that she and a group of her friends were discriminated against at Grandview Golf Club on Saturday.
Submitted video
So now Grandview has entered our racial lexicon, taking a spot next to Starbucks and Waffle House and Denny’s and the other public accommodations that seem to have some strange ideas about accommodating the public – or at least one subset of the public.
As you may have heard, there was, well, an incident at the Grandview Golf Club. The proprietors called the cops on a group of African-American women who, in the view of the golf club, were playing too slowly – which, as far as I’m able to…
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Experts, advocates talk about housing discrimination in South Bend
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Starbucks discrimination ‘a sign of America’s cultural war’ | News
The arrest of two black men at a Starbucks shop last week in the US city of Philadelphia has sparked outrage from protesters, who accuse the coffee giant of racial profiling.
The two men, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, were sitting in the coffee shop in the affluent Rittenhouse Square neighbourhood, waiting for a third person to arrive for a business meeting.
They asked to use the toilet, but the manager refused because the men had not purchased anything. The manager then asked them to leave, and when they declined, called the police.
A mobile phone video showing police arresting and handcuffing the men went viral, triggering protests against Starbucks and calls for boycott on social media.
For members of the African American community, incidents like this are not uncommon.
Racism…
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