Is racism a problem in America?

Question

-Big problem
-Litte problem
-No problem

Answer 1

Mmmmmmhhhhh, we just had a mayorial election here in New Orleans or should I say the "chocolate city" and even with racist remarks the incumbent or "Chief Chocolate Drop" as he is regarded by some was re-elected. Of course, the media didn't play it up as racism. Why? Because he is an African-American. A few other of his tidbits:
I don't want a bunch of mexicans running around in this city.
(With regard to Katrina) If it were white folks in Orange County the government would have responded better. Then after receiving criticism he said it was a matter of class (i.e., poor people). Well, he said,"white people" not "rich people."
I think it is a huge problem in this country and there are racist among whites and African-Americans. It is not a one-way street as the media would have you believe. We need to start calling a spade a spade (no pun intended) and knock this stuff off on both sides of the line. It only continues to divide this country.
Oh I forgot too mention another one here in New Olreans several years back where a gang of African-American youths kicked and punched an old white man to death. Was it racism? The media said "No!" Sad to say but if it had been a gang of white kids that killed an old African-American man we would have the Right Reverend Jesse Jackson down here doing his spinning..

Answer 2

While this is a socialogical problem, it is aphilisophical issue. That is to say that ones world view is what determines ones prejudices, likes, dislikes, predisposition, etc. Racism is a HUGE problem, but not a big as its causes (racism is a symtom and not the disease). The problem the systematic and incesant errosion of our moral foundations, what Sen. Patrick Moynahan cals "Defining Deviancy Down." Although I rarely find occasion to agree with liberal democrats, he's hit the nail right on the head.

We are even "deviant" enough in our society to let staments like "only whites can be racist" or "only men can be sexist" go unchallenged and even accepted as "pop" wisdom. All peoples are racist and all genders are sexist - equally. They only differ in their abilities and/or facilaties to impact others through thier deviant behaviors. Islam, for example, is engaging in the most abhorent social deviancy since The Third Riech yet most weterners can't even decide if it's their fault or ours (assuming their racist sectarian behavior to be only a reaction to some imaginary exploitation suffered at our hands).

Now before anyone out ther goes off the deep end, let me point out that I am a black man! I have family in the American Muslim Mission (formerly known as the Black Muslims) and I am a very conservative independant (not republican - they are too liberal for my tastes also).

No Islam hates infidels - period. First and foremost the Jew, second and next most the Christian, and lastly but by no means least, the Sikh, agnostics, atheist and non-montheistic sects.

They are more virulent in their hatred of the Jew and Christian because they represent the greatest intellectually sound repudiations to the claims of Islam. I'll stop here as this issue has little to do with ISLAM in particular, it is just a timely example of the confussion and intellectual fog that prevails in our society. I'll just add this, were I a Muslim I to would hate the Western World (And if I were white I'd probaly hate blacks also).

Why is this? Because while we easily see the perversion, weakness, deviancy and depravity of others, we rarely turn that keen accumen inward on ourselves (Jesus had much to say on this). Fact is we are all scum (just ask any Naturalist) and without any moral compass or bearing. The dichotomy is that these same naturalist who have debase human value with their relativism and nihilism are also the same ones who hold them selves out as our sage saviours! And most of you are stupid enough to keep listening to them.

GOD help you all.

Answer 3

Sure it is. It always has been and it always will be. But the Racism is directed in the wrong direction.

Whites and blacks, blacks and whites.
Somehow the ones that should be discriminated against seem to slip through the cracks and sit back and enjoy the fact that they are the one that are in this country illegally and should be the ones that are discriminated against.

There are still places in the south (Per CNN) where a white bus driver made the black kids sit in the back of the bus!
That bus driver should have been hung from the nearest Cypress tree. All of that still goes on while the black and white races should be uniting. 9/11 as horrible as it was drew everyone together. That is where we should have stayed, together.

Answer 4

After the twister that hit New Orleans i don't think of it grew to become into realised in th uk only how enormous racism grew to become into interior the U. S.. White English holiday makers trapped interior the Superbowl have been advised to stay at the same time in packs,pass to the rest room in communities,keep something accessible that could want for use as a weapon using blacks.After observing interviewed holiday makers arriving on the airport , i might definately say that the U. S. had a racism project and particularly frankly i might in no way heard something like it.

Answer 5

Racism is still a big problem in America. As a white elder who rode the back of the bus; used the "colored only" drinking fountains, restrooms and cofee counters; was clubbed and tear gassed during marches & sit-ins in the 60's to defeat racism, I see that many small minded individuals prefer the misery of hatred and bigotry still. MLK summed up our achievement when he said "It may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." Are we willing to settle for this?

Answer 6

where have you been?

its a big problem.

if you watch a reality television show and an african american gets voted off or kicked off or what not people start saying "That show is racist" or "people in america are racist".....umm there have been 2 American Idol winners and a few others in the top 5 finishers that were African Americans. Last Comic Standing...one won the whole thing....and so did an Asian.

but i think that the whole racism thing coms into context more with African Americans then any other race.

Answer 7

Racism is a problem all over the world. The problem is that human being refuse to consider everyone as a brother. But we are all bothers... there is only an universal original race.

Answer 8

Big problem. I've traveled quite a bit, and have found nowhere else in the world with America's particular form of racism.

Answer 9

I think the problem of racism is bilateral. Separation of people that are fundamentally different. Not to say too different to live peaceably with eachother, but different. Then theres the problem that even though it appears that many of us want to move past it to bigger external problems, because it was so bad there is this backlash from it within both cultures.

Answer 10

VERY BIG PROBLEM. Some things have improved dramatically like opportunity, pay and housing. But, there are still so many people (all races) with issues with each other based solely on race it's rediculous. Ignorence by choice really, because how you can hate an individual that you really don't know is really really stupid!!