nonracial

Example Sentences

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"South Africa's lawyers have done the nonracial, post-apartheid country proud," he added.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2024

From a legal perspective, a policy with discriminatory intent is unconstitutional even if it uses nonracial or seemingly race-neutral factors to achieve a racial result: It violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

He also said Georgia law limited his authority to intervene after defense attorneys stated nonracial reasons for cutting those jurors.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2021

The founders had embedded protections for slavery in the Constitution, but it was only after the abolition war, during what the historian Eric Foner calls the Second Founding, that nonracial citizenship became possible.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2021

In my cross-examination of Mr. Barnard I first read the court the letter I sent requesting that the prime minister call a national convention for all South Africans to write a new nonracial constitution.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela