2007-02-27 17:55:43 · 13 answers · asked by X 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Sherry P #5 says no, but look at her answer to this blatantly racist question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgxSSMY3NGqgZVg_i59549nsy6IX?qid=20070227230610AAcRW3i&show=7#profile-info-0iUYm694aa
Yes racism is still a problem, it is not as public as it was in the past but it is still a problem. Today racism is in the form of what we call "institutional racism" such as discrimination, racial profiling, prejudice, etc. Your question reminds me of an incident that happened to me on Valentines day. I was shopping for a gift for my boyfriend and was followed around the store by a plain clothes employee. Before I realized it was an employee following me I just though it was a shopper who happened to always be in my area. I didn't think much of it. Until a customer was looking around for some help and he says "Ma'am I can help you." When I realized what had happened I was terribly insulted because for one, I am a ridiculously honest person, I don't carry myself in a suspicious manner, I dress nice, I am an intelligent person, the only reason I feel I was targeted and followed is because of my race. I didn't say anything to the employee or manager, I just paid for my purchases and left. But incidences like these occur for minorities much too often especially males. My boyfriend has been stopped by the police 3 times for fitting the description of a suspect, and he's in law enforcement himself!!!
So the only people who deny racism is an issue are those who are not affected by it.
2007-02-27 19:03:07 · answer #1 · answered by Roni 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
of course there is still racism there will always be racism and i feel that the united states has it the worse. Plus we dont have to see a civil rights movement on the news to know that there is racism. Racism is in our back yards, in every town and city and also its not only black racism anymore...
2007-03-03 01:22:33 · answer #2 · answered by LoveuEndlessly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've been on yahoo answers two years almost and you ask a question like this?? Come on now you already know the answer. There's a hateful bigot just this morning spouting his rhetoric and using the n word and telling African descent people to go back to Africa like his ancestors didn't come to this country on boats too although by choice and above the bowels. This country is so filled with cowardly white folks that racism will never ever end. It is the fear of the past benefiting the oppressed in the future that is the problem.
2007-02-27 18:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the way we communicate approximately racism is the bigger undertaking. We communicate as though human beings the two are racists, or have not any racism in any respect. the placement isn't that simplistic. the biggest undertaking that I see wherein "racism" is in contact, is that at present some distance too many persons are irresponsibly tossing around the accusation "racist" or "racism" because of the fact somebody disagrees with them or they are no longer getting what they opt for. using the term "racism" or "racist" has grow to be sloppy: i could say too a lot of human beings easily abuse the words. So we are in the placement that, sure, wolves do exist, yet while absolutely everyone and his brother "cries wolf", then fairly quickly human beings in simple terms provide up paying interest to no count if or no longer there are fairly any wolves around. And by utilising the way, what ever befell to sexism? Do human beings think of sexism has disappeared, and that racism is the sole undertaking final? No, this is in basic terms a case of the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Too many blacks can no longer provide up screaming and whining "racism, racism!!" each and every hazard they get so this is all we hear approximately. very few females, by utilising assessment, spend their entire day suffering to discover something to ***** approximately as sexist. once you're ineffective set on looking an occasion of something obtainable, you're the two going to discover it, or you are going to manufacture it. This is going for "racism" besides as the different perspective or concept absolutely everyone could have.
2016-10-02 02:39:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very much so, perhaps not so much shoved in the media's face, or battling with legal segregation or persecution. But hatred for people of different races is very much still a problem. How about the war? And the stereotyping and racism people are having for Middle Eastern individuals? Take a look around.
2007-02-27 18:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by Zepp 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If it wasn't, you wouldn't even have to ask the question. People who don't already know it is a problem, are out of touch with reality.
2007-03-03 17:14:16 · answer #6 · answered by lil_snipe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have to ask...clearly it is! A problem is no longer a problem when people stop talking about it. Every other question...better yet almost every damn question on yahoo answers is about race.
2007-02-27 19:19:32 · answer #7 · answered by finley036 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes we still look at color and not the person behind it as long as there are narrow mined people we have a race problem
2007-03-04 13:13:18 · answer #8 · answered by marsh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have got to be kidding asking that just have a look at some of the questions and answers in this section and you will see it's alive and well.
2007-02-27 23:57:04 · answer #9 · answered by flossypants 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
thats kinda like asking is the sky still blue
2007-03-04 17:52:18 · answer #10 · answered by channy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋