racially challenged
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US, Euphemistic Not white, and thus facing challenges (or perceived as deficient) due to racism.
- He'd assumed that on average Italians were about as dumb, lazy and street-level criminal as a certain racially challenged segment of the U.S. population, only with better cuisine and cuter noses.2009, Michael Dibdin, End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, →ISBN, page 206:
- Derricotte explains that being racially challenged moves one “outside of love, community” and places “that territory in another person's head that made her the thing hated".2013, Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Crossing Black: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Fiction and Culture:
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- "You must have quite a powerful mind for one so young and racially challenged." Ted looked up sharply at the dragon's comment. "What do you mean, racially challenged? A black kid can't be a wizard? I guess all wizards have to be white […]"2019, Brock E. Deskins, The Portal, Crossroad Press:
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US, Euphemistic White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due to being racist), etc.
- […] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.2000, Refugees, page 20:
- And he gives an account of the odd coupling of Utopian co-op developer Abraham Kazan and the anti-utopian, racially challenged Robert Moses that is alone worth the price of admission.2010, Peter R. Eisenstadt, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:
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- It was also implied that the racially challenged Republicans, hobbled by their party's overwhelming whiteness, somehow didn't want nonwhite Americans to share in the coming cornucopia.2013, L. Brent Bozell, III; Tim Graham, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election---and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially, challenged.
- […] belonging, accommodation and attachment to a nation, with white Africans or Asian Africans being nationalistically and racially challenged. The case of politically aspiring white Kenyans has become a recent politically heated debate.2000, Edmond Maloba Were, Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Nationalism and Democracy for People Centred Development in Africa: