These viral incidents are often dismissed as isolated examples of racial anxiety. Experts say the phenomenon points to something far more serious: modern-day segregation -- a way of dictating who is welcome in certain spaces and who is not. - JanellRoss
“At least as telling as the constant barrage of stories about African American people stopped, suspected, harassed, is the constancy of denial about what is happening,” Williams said.Federal and state civil rights laws are clear: Public spaces and certain businesses, including museums, restaurants and hotels, must serve the entire public without discrimination, said Dariely Rodriguez, director of the Economic Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
“Those the business owner and other customers believe can pay, who ‘fit’ with the business’ aesthetic, won’t face deep scrutiny or extra monitoring,” Goff said. “Those who don’t will. But, in the United States, it’s unrealistic to assume that who belongs where, and who or what doesn’t, will not ultimately involve race.”
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