The move is bound to upset small business owners, who have generally opposed the controversial law because of its intrusive and very expensive requirements. The Bush administration's Justice Department will defend the policy of awarding some government contracts based on race when it chimes in on a long-running reverse discrimination case that is returning to the Supreme Court for the third time. In race-obsessed America, people who have multiple races in their background resist easy categorization and are helping to break down traditional racial barriers. A day after suspected terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Arab-American, Muslim and Sikh leaders reported sporadic vandalism and assaults against their communities. In the wake of the vicious terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. Muslims reported rampant harassment.
Attacks range from hateful insults in chatrooms and on the street to shots fired at mosques.
In the wake of the terrorist atrocity, anti-Arab bigotry is spreading. Incidents have included shootings and other acts of violence across the United States and in allied countries. But on Wednesday, he closed Sariya early for the first time ever after receiving threats and hearing reports that Arab-Americans in the neighborhood had been attacked. In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Arab-American and Islamic groups report hundreds of cases of harassment, intimidation and violence, including at schools. School officials struggle to protect children while teaching tolerance.