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[[File:Roma camp Lille France 2010.jpg|thumb|300px|Roma children at an encampment in Lille. France has deported many Gypsy migrants to Bulgaria and Romania in 2010.]]
 
[[File:Roma camp Lille France 2010.jpg|thumb|300px|Roma children at an encampment in Lille. France has deported many Gypsy migrants to Bulgaria and Romania in 2010.]]
 
'''Racism''' is [[prejudice]] and [[discrimination]] based on [[race]].
 
'''Racism''' is [[prejudice]] and [[discrimination]] based on [[race]].
An example is a claim that of inferiority or superiority based on the color of one's skin.  Another example was the [[Jim Crow]] laws. Racism means the hatred of another person because of the color of his or her skin; some used the term ''racism'' for perrceived difference in origin.   
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An example is a claim that of inferiority or superiority based on the color of one's skin.  Another example was the [[Jim Crow]] laws. Racism means the hatred of another person because of the color of his or her skin; some used the term ''racism'' for perceived difference in origin.   
    
The doctrine of [[substantive due process]] in United States constitutional law can be used to invalidate racist laws.  Alternately, the [[Equal Protection|equal protection]] clause of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] can be used to do the same.  ''See e.g.'' [[Brown v. Board of Education]], 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
 
The doctrine of [[substantive due process]] in United States constitutional law can be used to invalidate racist laws.  Alternately, the [[Equal Protection|equal protection]] clause of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] can be used to do the same.  ''See e.g.'' [[Brown v. Board of Education]], 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
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