Does racism still exist in America? If yes, would you provide some everyday examples of it that happens today?
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Uh Yea, it exists. But its a different kind of racism than when we read about it in our textbooks from years before because today races discriminate against their own kind. Its not strictly racism, some of it is economics. Sometimes when people come up and earn alot more money than others, they think they are better than people who struggle day to day. I still feel discriminated against when I go into expensive store and the sales people look at me like... what is she doing in here? She can't afford nothing in here. Or when I get out of my car and someone goes out of their way or makes a huge effort after seeing me to lock their car door. I can't stand that! Just because someone may look like they don't have money, maybe they do and vice versa.
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Racism still exists in many parts of the world.\n\nIt's not right and it's not nice...but it's a fact.\n\nIgnore the minority of ppl who still are biggots.
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racism - Doesn't exist like it did in the past. Why else are some of the richest Americans black? Where else would you find a black women, like Rice, in such a high position in government? I think we are doing pretty good in less than 40 years!\n\ndrug addiction - Because we removed the Bible as our moral foundation. It started becoming rampant in the 60s, same time we removed prayer and the Bible from schools.\n\nchild molestation, child abuse - Sex slavery is rampant in other countries. Here, at least, we do something about it when we can.\n\nwomen abuse - Not here. Many women in high positions of power. New legislation to protect them. Houses of sanctuary to flee abusers.\n\n2 wars in 6 years - Yes, both in answer to two towers down. The smart war is one that keeps the enemy on the defense. I will never forget the children that ran out of Saddam's prisons, or the Iraqi Olympic hopefuls that knew that they could compete without Saddam's sons torturing them afterward for not winning. People have short memorys.
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Wow Chino. I didn't think anyone would have the nuts to say that. Ditto and kudos. I think that for the most part, racism has been completely turned around. I think the majority of the racism now is black on white. There will never be equality as long as there is ignorance (in both blacks and whites.)
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What do you mean, The USA has been a racist country since day one and is slowly showing improvement in race relations.
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Things haven't change a bit sinse then compared to 50's and 60's esp during the segregation period. Georgia, is the most racist state I know, and mississippi too. I think it's really racist everywhere, things havent changed, martin king did have a dream, that all whites and black would be sitting at the table together, well that dream did come true, because we do have alot of interracial marriages more than we did back in the day. I think now statistically, even the "majority" will disagree with this. but minorities are now becoming the majoritities....
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Yes, I must say that hearing African-Americans, or Black People (whichever they prefer to be called) complain of racism, has grown quite tiresome - like to the point where it's embarassingly laughable.  \n\nBeing of bi-racial ancestry (which includes an ethnic minority), myself, I have experienced all sorts of racism, but none has been so bitingly memorable as that I have experienced from A.Americans, or Black People.  \n\nIt is a little known fact that there are a lot of A.Americans/Black People who are doing their fair share to perpetuate all sorts of negative stereotypes, racism, hatred, and ignorance amongst THEMSELVES.  I find that completely deplorable. It's rather frightening, really, because a race that hates itself will, in all probability, eventually destroy itself.  There should be more strength and unity among this specific race of people, if for no other reason than the preservation of historical, traditional, cultural, developmental, educational, occupational, and spiritual values, instead of generating fodder for embarassing crime statistics.  \n\nThere are places in the United States, where crime in ethnically populated, or "urban" areas, is so out of control that the local law enforcement and/or government has little to no interest in taking any steps toward protecting those citizens or making any effort to reduce criminal activity in areas such as this because the residents of such neighborhoods are only menacing, terrorizing, stalking, molesting, assaulting, raping, robbing, and killing EACH OTHER.  \n\nI believe the self-destructive behavior, and INTRA-RACIAL HATRED of A.Americans/Black People is probably at the root of this problem in our society today...  \n\nSo yes, I DO feel that "the race card" (to use the parlance of our times) HAS been abused by A.Americans/Black People, because I know that as people, they cannot seriously expect anyone to respect their views, values, and ideas until they can begin to demonstrate solidarity amongst themselves.  It's unfortunate to say that, but I think it's true.
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I do believe racism is still very evident in the u.s. People may not just come out and say it, but you can tell by actions and expressions. I don't know why people hate indians. People tend to fear things and people and cultures they don't understand, therefor causing them to hate than take the time to understand and embrace. Stereotypes tend to take a hold of everyone.
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It is quite possible, and happens every day.  Two of the biggest hatemongering bigots are in the media every day....jackson and sharpton promote racism constantly.
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Time does not heal all wounds, it just makes them a little less important.\n\nYour question and the reading raises a few interesting points but I will say this, racism is not a 'thing' we can see or touch or taste, it is an emotion based in an irrational fear that is taught from generation to generation. It matters not what the specific race of the individuals are engaging in hate behavior, it is more closely related to the stereotypes that have evolved over literally hundreds of years.\n\nWithout education, racism exisists as an entity rather than a concept and with education, racism will cease to exist. Do not concern yourself with products on store shelves that have been bolted down. You see it in communities all over America and in places where there are no Black people, so take heart in knowing that yes, racism is indeed alive, but only in the hearts of those who have a vested interest in keeping it alive.\n\nAbout your comments, there are lots of Black people that use "White" hair products and vice versa; in case you were unaware, CVS has anti-theft devices in or on all of their products. They have one of the highest loss-ratios in the business, meaning that people are stealing from there all the time, White, Black, whatever. Stealing is not a Black thing, it's a people thing.
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Very, but it can't happen because we whites abolished slavery.  No black alive in America today ever was a slave, and no white alive in America today ever owned one.  I don't see how the blacks alive today have any standing at all regarding slavery 140 years ago.\n\nAnd take a look at Africa, and consider our immigration picture.  Do you think blacks in America today would rather their family had stayed in Africa, where slavery continued much longer than here?  Granted what happened to their ancestors was terrible, for those alive today, are they worse off than if their families had remained?
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=yes it is 2006 and racism was always here and will continue at least through this generation or until we are all one.  Some things never change.  Happy Thanksgiving
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Because no matter how much we want to believe that racism doesn't exist anymore, it does! Nowadays it is just more subtle. It really sux!
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A NON-RACIST THEORY OF RACIST AMERICA\n\n\n\nIntroduction\n\nAll the theories that have been used to explain the nature of the United States are inadequate to the task because they have refused to see racism as the primary factor influencing the country. It is just too upsetting for Americans to admit this role of racism.\n\nEven the liberal/radical theories that refer to the United States as a racist nation mean little more than that the people and the institutions of the nation are prejudiced and discriminate against black Americans. This is only half the story, however, since the values, ideals, and indeed the very thought processes of Americans are expressions of racism. In this article we argue that racism is not an American "dilemma," or simply one of the social problems facing the country. Racism is America itself.\n\nThe article examines the South as an example of the kind of analysis that sociologists should be doing for the entire United States. American social scientists understood the racist nature of the South. They emphasized the importance of the caste system and the racism of not only the southern upper class, but the middle class as well. These theorists also emphasized the impact of racism on every aspect of southern life, from its government to its values, ideals, and ideas.\n\nSociologists have failed to apply the southern model to the United States as a whole. The reason for this is primarily that most sociologists believe in the liberal version of the equality- of-opportunity thesis and because they became so focused on the civil rights battles in the South that they failed to notice the pervasive racism throughout the nation. The South's racism was simply more virulent.\n\nThe next part applies the southern analysis to an understanding of the United States as a whole. This application is especially needed today because the migration of blacks to all the urban centers of the nation makes the entire country now behave in a manner similar to the South after the breakdown of legal supports for its apartheid system. The next part concentrates on the acceptance by the upper and middle classes of the equality-of- opportunity thesis, rather than equality of results, as the preferred social model for the nation. We argue that the basis for this acceptance is racism itself.\n\nThe next part develops a political model showing how the white middle class controls political swings in American governmental history. The white middle class (including in that class the working class) determines the major political agenda of the nation, including its society, culture, and government. It also shows that this middle class is racist.\n\nThe model also identifies the social change factors that account for the political cycles in American history. Even though the United States is a basically conservative nation, it has increased equality of opportunity five times (counting the Jacksonian revolution as part of the establish of American government): the abolition of slavery, the Progressive era's curbing of industrial concentration, the granting of woman suffrage, the establishment of the welfare state, and the abolition of the southern apartheid system. Although the United States has certainly granted more equality over time to its citizens, it must never be forgotten that these changes occurred within the framework of a racist nation, and that the changes never touched the underlying equality-of-opportunity thesis or fundamentally altered the unequal society.\n\nThe next part traces the development of a common racist culture in the United States. It shows how the three very different regions (New England, the mid-Atlantic, and the South) were able to unite culturally because all faced similar problems involved with slavery. Common experiences with racism led the colonials to combine laissez- faire economics and puritanical moralism into a racist thesis of equality of opportunity.\n\nThe next part explains how
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I'm not sure if its a pattern, but Its definitely NOT NEW. Every country back in the past 300 or so years had at least one immigration issue stemming from the difficulty of a few immigrants to assimilate, and unfortunately due to typical human insecurity and prejudice this expands into racism and hate. The Jews in Europe are one of the more famous cases of this (yes there was hate of jews even before but it expanded considerably in the last 200-300 years), The US also had it with Germans and Asians in the pre-World War I/II years. In the end though in most of the cases the affected countries end up surviving the so-called "invasion".\n\nIts the same today... a few scum Hispanics defy US culture, then certain "Americans" take this to mean ALL Hispanics defy the USA. In Europe some radical Muslims make trouble and this results into a general prejudice against Muslims. However since this is today (not 50 or even 200 years ago) and the circumstances are different with new ideas like multiculturalism (which ironically increases ethnocentrism in some quarters)... so no one really knows 100% what the outcome of these issues are.
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Racism is not becoming less prevalent. It is just more subtle. Racism today is not just "in your face" It's kind of under the table. and the you can see some of the subtle racism on the show.
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Yes, unfortunately there is.  As long as one race thinks that they are superior over another there will be. Now mind you, the term "racism" gets often confused with the terms "generalizations" and "stereotypes".  Believe it or not, if someone were to say that "all Asians are smart," or that "all low-income people smoke," those are not examples of racism.  Remember, racism is when a race thinks that they are better than another race.  Racism will exist as long as we have groups that spread hate like the KKK or the Neo-Nazis.