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color bar

NOUN
discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people
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The most useful change to the statement is a color bar chart that shows the estimated monthly retirement payments you’d get each year starting at age 62 when you first become eligible.

From Washington Post Nov. 5, 2021

Dienderen’s section, a camera tracks through an art school campus to a television studio where it finds a Black woman, a white man and a color bar.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2021

The pattern was then drawn in pencil on canvas stretched over board and, finally, each color bar painted by hand.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2016

What other thought does the man who shattered baseball’s color bar need to leave us with?

From Washington Times Jun. 25, 2014

Zubeida was the wife of my friend Cassim Patel, a member of the Indian Congress, and she was without any sense of color bar whatsoever.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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