They also serve as a symbol of baseball's larger problem: an entrenched racism.

A rule perpetuated by culturally entrenched racism and a desire by club owners to be perceived as representing the values and beliefs of everyday, American, white man.

They have set out to offer an alternative kind of comedy and to counter what they say is entrenched racism in mainstream comedy clubs.

The president responded by attacking Mr. Leon as "willing to enunciate an entrenched white racism that is a millennium old."

The ATA felt that New York City's teachers and schools perpetuated a system of entrenched racism, and in 1966 it began campaigning actively for community control.

Mr. Dent paints a bleak picture in which entrenched racism, seemingly little altered by time, continues to hold sway.

But a dingle seminar ... how is that going to even begin to tackle the problem of entrenched racism?

So our foreign policy is certainly one channel through which we really can take action against this entrenched racism.

This is just one tool that can be used against entrenched racism.

Anger at what some Indians perceived as corrupt government and entrenched racism boiled over on Feb. 1, when two Lumbees took hostages at The Robesonian, a daily newspaper in Lumberton, the county seat.