racial spoils
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
racial spoils pl (plural only)
- (US, politics, derogatory) Preferential treatment of minorities in source selection for government contracts.
- The State Senate recently voted to adopt a racial spoils system whereby at least 25% of construction contracts must be awarded to minority-owned businesses.
- 2009, George F. Will, “The Wreck of the Racial Spoils System”, in The Washington Post:
- Ricci [v. DeStefano] may be the rock upon which America's racial spoils system finally founders.