racially challenged

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • 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".
   • "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 […]"
2. 2

   White, and thus facing challenges in appealing to nonwhite voters, or in functioning (due…

   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.
   • 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.
   • 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.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   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.

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