they see him approaching. Once, in a jewelry store he entered, ôThe proprietor excused herself and returned with an enormous red Doberman pinscher straining at the end of a leashö (Staples 787). Such covert examples of racism demonstrate that racism still plagues ethnic groups in U.S. society.
There are numerous other examples of how racism still persists in U.S. society, even though notions of race are often artificially constructed and not based in factual differences. The disproportionate amount of arrests, convictions, and lengthier prison terms for young Black males is only one example. Another example of racism is the lack of resources available to crowded urban school districts with high proportions of ethnic students compared to primarily white school districts. Racism continues to not only undermine opportunities and resources available to ethnic groups bu
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