Definition of "racial" []

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of race or races. (adjective)
• Arising from or based on differences among human racial groups: racial conflict; racial discrimination. (adjective)

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• "HAYES: I think this is part of the problem, frankly, he says it ` s suspicious that I would use the term racial preference."
• "Don't forget that racial profiling has been going on long before we had the term racial profiling."
• "Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup."