Still are. Only now, black people are responsible fir passing them.
In the past, the intent was straight up and obvious. Today the same, and worse, is being perpetrated to keeping their “people” on the plantation by means of hand-outs, not hand-ups.
ANY and EVERY behavior that based on race in unique from the normal collective behaviors when interfacing with everyone else is racism. Giving advantage OR taking away of advantage based on race is all racist behavior and fly in the face of Dr. King’s color blind society. Shameful.