Most people alive today were born after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. We may be inclined to take for granted that civil rights are so engrained in our society that racial discrimination is only a thing of the past. Yet, cases still come up in Washington where racial discrimination is at issue. In the 1950s, the Washington State Legislature enacted what is now known as the Washington Law Against Discrimination (“WLAD”), codified at RCW chapter 49.60. That law makes it unlawful to discriminate against persons based upon their belonging to a protected class, which includes “race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, families with children, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability.” The law does not prevent all such discrimination; rather, it
