Your point is correct they are going to use racism for everything.
While avoiding all racism, I think Americans need the cajones to say they are tired of the racial BS and that it is baloney in a world of affirmative action, welfare, black presidents, black caucus, civil rights, set asides, on and on and on. Just MHO.
Do any of you see racism in your daily lives? Or do you see the opposite?
Originally the concern was all about INSTITUTIONALIZED racism, as I recall. There never was a belief that you could one hundred per cent (or 3000 per cent) change every hardened-heart. There will always be someone somewhere who is a racist, just as there will always be baddies of every type. Because some people murder does not make us a “murderous” country for example.
“Do any of you see racism in your daily lives? Or do you see the opposite?”
The opposite. All I have is my own experience. Perhaps things are and were different in different parts of the country. I’m 62 years old (tell anyone and I’ll hurt ya).
In my family, neighborhood, church, and school especially, anyone would have been ostracized and shunned who dared be a racist. I lived in several communities in the Pac. N.W. We were taught it was the lowest of character flaws and a sin. People ‘different’ from my ‘YT’ community were treated more like celebrities than strangers. But then they did’nt show up by the millions with a BAD attitude and try to tell us to change our laws to suit them.
I only heard it once when Obama was campaigning. My friend (a Republican and a Mormon) was saying she wouldn't vote for him because of his politics, but she said her mother wouldn't vote for him because he was black. So, I guess it's still out there.