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Xurtio · 05-05-2014, 08:41 AM

I disagree that "racism is a thing of the past" in the USA. Police and TSA still racially profile blacks and middle-easterners, respectively. That's essentially state-sanctioned racism. You have people in positions of authority setting an example (and don't forget about the whole deep south, where kids are still being raised racist). My wife's parents are racist. There's still plenty of explicitly racist supremacy groups exercising their right to free speech in the US.

That's not to undermine class discrimination. A rich black man can get a lot more done politically than a poor white man could. But a rich black man still has nothing on a rich white man (all else being equal).

05-05-2014, 08:41 AM	#8 (permalink)
Xurtio Brain Licker Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 1,083	I disagree that "racism is a thing of the past" in the USA. Police and TSA still racially profile blacks and middle-easterners, respectively. That's essentially state-sanctioned racism. You have people in positions of authority setting an example (and don't forget about the whole deep south, where kids are still being raised racist). My wife's parents are racist. There's still plenty of explicitly racist supremacy groups exercising their right to free speech in the US. That's not to undermine class discrimination. A rich black man can get a lot more done politically than a poor white man could. But a rich black man still has nothing on a rich white man (all else being equal). __________________ H̓̇̅̉yͤ͏mͬ͂ͧn͑̽̽̌ͪ̑͐͟o̴͊̈́͑̇m͛͌̓ͦ̑aͫ̽ͤ̇n̅̎͐̒ͫ͐c̆ͯͫ̋ ̔̃́eͯ͒rͬͬ̄҉