How do you feel about racism in America?

Question

Do you think there has been progress?? Why or why not?

Answer 1

In some ways, there's been advances but still is alive and well.

In many ways, it is even more problematic to the Nation as a whole than it was in the 50's and 60's. We've now got even more groups to discriminate against, you'd have to be blind not to see it.

As the minority population of the USA continues to grow, expect it to get worse rather than better. Now we masquerade racism by hiding behind terms like "illegals" which allows us to set aside deep seated undercurrents of racism in favor of a more 'politically correct' concept.

Were it not so "alive & well" then we wouldn't need to have a Black Caucus in our Congress, would we? Barack Obama would be just a candidate for President..........not a Black candidate.

We have taken steps forward and pedal backwards almost as quickly, in the end, many have benefitted but many more have not. It is a slow and painful road, paved with politics, hypocrisy, victimization with small bursts of light.

There isn't a single major city in most of the USA today that has less race based poverty than there was 50 years ago, and the high school drop out rate among minorities is higher than it ever has been. Prison populations?

But there's more Black college grads, more home ownership, more businesses and what does that say? It tells me that when one wants to make it, they can, the doors are opened wide.

Your race should never be an excuse for failure. You do not need government to get there.

Answer 2

Racism is hardly a problem at all anymore in America. There has been tremendous progress. I think people today don't even know what racism was like 40 or 50 years ago.

The Civil Rights Struggle is over.

Answer 3

I feel it has somewhat dropped, but there are still those who harbor deep resentment in some areas, North and South America. Some people just hate others because of stereotyping, skin, horrible parents, its hard to get rid of that mentality. There will always be racism in the world, not just in America. Was progress made, absolutely. But racism will always be in America. Personally I love talking to all races, it keeps everything interesting.

Answer 4

I think that it is pretty much non existent in the North, but I do think that there are some places in the South where racism thrives. I think there has been progress cause it's generally looked down upon. The only way racism thrives is when people accept it for normal. Now people dont accept it, and thats why in places that it isnt accepted, it doesnt thrive.

Answer 5

I have been in many countries and believe me, racism is less here than in most others.
We give it lots of publicity. In other lands, it is hushed up.
We have a huge "Melting Pot" of cultures and races and racism is a fact of life but it is far less tolerated and less prevalent than it was 40 years ago.
In some nations where only one race is dominant, like Japan or China, racism is far worse but not so easily observed because there are so few people living there from outside their culture.
In China, all are Chinese but the Han Chinese (one of more than 80 different Chinese ethnic groups) are dominant and if you are not Han, you have little chance of prospering in China. They look at blacks as the absolute dregs of humanity.
Yes there is racism in America, yes we need to keep working to eliminate it, but no one is denied prosperity if they produce something the American people want to buy. Economically, we all have equal opportunity.
Produce what pleases the buyer and you will succeed.
Immigrants succeed in business all the time.
The Japanese sell cars here in volume.
Why?
Is it because we love the Japanese? No! It is because they produce what we like!
The same is true for Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey.
The same can be true for ANYONE.

Answer 6

I think there has been progress but not enough. There is no official segregation but some races are still disadvantaged because of systematic racism and less access to resources like education and health care
Plus racist attitudes still exist, even though people try to fight it some people still have them. It's something we have to keep working on and lots of progress has been made. There will probably always be some racists but as long as the majority improves that is what matters.

Answer 7

America has made an incredible amount of progress. Anytime you blend people there are going to be power struggles and people thinking they are better than the other. We have a ways to go but we have certainly come very far. Just knowing human nature though, I doubt it will ever entirely go away.

Answer 8

racism is hardly a problem my ***!
sadly, i dont think it will ever change, maybe people will become less ignorant with time, but since most people learn racism from their parents its a cycle that probably wont change =[.
or they learn it from friends who learned it from parents...shitt, for example, i have a neighbor who used to claim he was blood and could be discribed as a wigger, now he is hitler jr. and claims to be a skin head..
sure there has been some progress, but it could get a lot better.

Answer 9

There has been tremendous progress, but there is still a lot of progress to be made. I just saw a question asked on this very site asking how to keep hispanics out of your neighborhood.

Answer 10

All of those are matters, different than...i would not placed cruelty, particularly to animals, in the same classification as matters like racism and sexism. i'm unsure why human beings think of of animal rights is a great deal. although the biggest cultural difficulty I see is racism, and the subsequent is the erosion of morals and values in this us of a. i think of of morals/values encompasses matters like apathy, selfishness, intercourse, drugs and push aside. Then i could say LGBT rights. I placed it in that order with the aid of actuality racism is our longest-status difficulty, and that's the only element that i think of of will continuously be a difficulty till ultimately the the main suitable option of time. there is not something it is finished to thoroughly rid the U. S. or the worldwide of racism. If not for racism's finished domination of our society and time, i could certainly placed the erosion of morals/values first. it is turning out to be a super, extensive difficulty, and that's in simple terms going to result interior the decline of the U. S. as a superpower. we are shifting in path of permitting way too plenty, basically tolerating any variety of habit, and in path of stressful extra advantageous approximately matters like intercourse, particularly appeal and entertainment than intelligence. we are waiting to be a heat yet dumb us of a some day rapidly. LGBT rights is a few subject I see as thoroughly winning some day rapidly on a criminal scale, yet LGBTs will with the aid of no skill thoroughly be primary socially basically like blacks with the aid of no skill could be.