Tamarah Prevost JD ’16 wrote an opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle about why existing laws fail to protect people of color. Read the article.
“Ultimately, it is hypocritical to ignore the effects of systemic discrimination. Disparate impact-employment claims are a tacit acknowledgment from legislators that facially neutral policies can yield discriminatory results. Lawmakers and their constituents should not be permitted to cabin this analysis to the employment context. Rather, it should be extrapolated into carefully considered society-wide change. And those who created discriminatory systems should now be charged with fixing them.”
