Explain What Institutional Racism Is and How It Operates

question 55

Essay

Explain what institutional racism is and how it operates. Use the document the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) produced in 2015 in response to a grand jury's exoneration of a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, after he fatally shot an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown to illustrate institutional racism. Your answer should be one to two paragraphs in length.

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