Do you think the united states of america is a racist country?

Racist as in systemically oppressive? Yes. It was literally built on racism. That doesn't go away just because you end slavery. The idealogies of the people who fought to keep slavery legal did not just fade away. And you need a lot of people supporting these ideas for them to still be such a big part of the American government and for people to get so incredibly offended and feel threatened when these ideas are challenged. I think racism is very normalized in the USA and Canada.

There are no racist countries - just racist people. All over the world in every country. Why did the Van Halen brothers have to leave their native Holland in the 60s? Because their Indonesian mother was not accepted there, nor was the family. So the Van Halens move to LA and get some of the same treatment.

I think there are people living there that want it to be a racist country and do everything they can to cry racism.
Overall I do not think its a racist country

It is becoming so, against whites

The United States has a long history of racist policies and practices that were legal up until relatively recently. It's so recent that its legacy is still lingers in aspects of peoples lives and perpetuates racial inequalities.

That isn't to say that incredible progress hasn't been made, because attitudes and achievement outcomes today are generally far better towards minority groups than they've ever really been.

Still, racism casts a long shadow and minority communities are still dealing with the aftershocks of intentional and unintentional racial discrimination. Things that have attempted to help, like the war on drugs or war on poverty or tough on crime policies, have often backfired and exacerbated some negative outcomes without meaning to.

I mean, does failing to remedy these negative outcomes and leaving these communities to pick up the pieces from so many generations of discriminatory policies and practices could make the US a racist country? Probably not. But I feel like the US is still going to need to do some work to gain back the faith and trust of the people it's wronged

There is racism but I don't consider it to be racist altogether.

Nope just infested with socialists.

No

No. Most Americans may not be all that bright but it is most certainly not a racist country.

Some people are racist and some aren't.. in America and the world over imo..

well, they elected obummer, so i think not.

I think there are racists, and people who are prejudiced from every walk of life. Is it systemically racist in the US, I don't believe so. People of every color, creed or sexual preference have the same opportunities as everyone else.

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Yes very much

NO

There is still a good amount of institutional racism to tackle and personal racism to educate out of the public.

It's more of a sliding scale than a yes/no response.

In a general sense we have been trending towards less racism. Given metrics of number of racist people/ incidents that has been gradually improving over time. Given metrics of severity of racist action and vocalness of racists, we are better than the days following the Civil rights act, but i think worse than the 90s and early 00s.

What happened? The number of racist people engaging in subtle racism that is harder to see had been shrinking. Then we started seeing an upswell of minority representatives in office. Fewer racist voters meant more chances to get elected.

Being elected to office is VERY visible and threatens the sensibility of people who are still racist. So they grow more vocal and lash out more. The increased noise and optics makes it seem like racism is on the rise again, but it is a vocal minority.

The US has not yet solved racism. We've still got problems. But in the long view we've made good progress. We just have to keep up the good fight so that the actual racists don't take us backwards. We have to stand our ground and keep fighting for that brighter future.

I like to think most people are not, but, there is certainly a lot.

There are some racist people [b]everywhere[/b]

Yes, some areas more than others.

Absolutely. Much racism that was [b]legal[/b] when I was small no longer is, but a number of groups are trying to take us back there by reversing legislation that provided necessary protections against racial discrimination, ironically on the premise that’s it’s "no longer needed”.
But people are still treated differently, legally or not.

Those who maintain that ours is a "post-racist" country, are generally (and unsurprisingly) those who were never traditionally racism’s target, or are wealthy enough now to not be.

Overall, no.

Nopa