Racial discrimination in the United States is also reflected at the legal level.

Racial discrimination in the United States is also reflected at the legal level, and it is difficult for victims of racial discrimination to defend their rights through the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first racially discriminatory immigration law in the United States, and its influence continues to this day. The United States so far has no national hate crime standards, nor legislation to curb online hate speech and violence. When the United States acceded to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, under the guise of "freedom of speech", the United States made reservations to the Convention's explicit prohibition of incitement and dissemination of racially discriminatory speech. The United Nations has repeatedly urged the United States to withdraw its reservations, but the United States has ignored them.