Laws of this type later used racially neutral language to survive legal challenge, but were expected to be enforced against blacks rather than whites.

The laws regulating their employment may appear to be racially neutral but are not.

I suspect that it would be impossible to arrange an affirmative action program in a racially neutral way and have it successful.

Karen Melissa Coto, 15, said she and her friends painted the figures blue to make them appear racially neutral.

On the other hand, the racially neutral colour white has long been associated with pureness and virtue.

"We are challenging a range of state educational practices that, while racially neutral on their face, are having a discriminatory impact upon high minority schools."

"We firmly believe that racially neutral criteria were used to make these decisions," he said.

It has been a racially neutral migration, with equal numbers of black and white residents moving to Jefferson Parish.

The burden then shifts to the prosecutor to give a racially neutral explanation for why he made the challenge.

"We believe that the criteria are racially neutral."