Part of a basic truth here in America is being missed. This fear or distrust is being called racist...but it is actually a fear of the tilted system leaving them behind in the dust. The legal system here is prejudice against them. True some of them are racist but most are just fighting for survival on the ground. They are fighting for their jobs and their families.
Most of us here worked hard in school or our businesses in our younger years to provide for our families and had good fortune as a result. These guys didn't do so well for whatever reason, immaturity or maybe a lack of IQ. But whatever the reason they are correct to assume that no one is looking out for them from either party. The minorities have the Dems wrapped up and the Blue dogs have nothing but the false promises left to look forward to. I try to put myself in their shoes. What would I do if I found myself in a low paying job and had to be a slave boy to minorities who play the race card to an employer and a judge at every turn?
Yes there is still racism in America...but is it what it used to be?
You can stilll find racists in America but "racism?" I doubt it. The ideology of racial (White)supremacy as a consequential force is dead as a doornail. Aside from ugly looks and snarky comments and the rather rare racial white on black crime you have to go back forty years or more to find significant concerted actions based on racial ideology which did actual harm. If it were otherwise the newspapers and court dockets would be filled with the news. of this epidemic of civil rights offenses. As it is, they hardly can gin one up--usually at the level of someone making a crude joke in the workplace.
The left loves to preach about how "racist" America is but I challenge anyone to come up with the data in 2008.