racist
Other forms: racists
A person who believes one race is better than another is racist. Racists discriminate against other races.
If someone believes one race is inherently superior, that person is racist. Individuals can be racist, but so can businesses, laws, and governments. A racist person can do some damage, but a racist government can do far worse, as in the cases of slavery in America or apartheid in South Africa.
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In Nic Stone's unflinching exploration of racism, high school student Justyce McAllister writes letters to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in order to process the violence and prejudice he encounters in his community.
This novel by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely tells the story of Rashad and Quinn, two teenagers whose lives are changed after an incident of police brutality divides their community.
In 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four African-American girls. In this memoir, survivor Carolyn Maull McKinstry recounts the bombing and life in the South under Jim Crow laws.