Why America is Still Racist Even if Not Malignantly So

Answer this question before you read the link. Who commits more crime in America? White folks or black folks?

http://www.alternet.org/rights/26507/

When New Orleans flooded after Katrina had passed through, the national media, the local media, hell just about everybody, saw pictures of black folks obtaining the necessities of life during a time of the collapse of all public and private services, businesses, etc. That some people didn't get why there were people left in New Oleans after the mandatory evacuation order demonstrated their ignorance of the reality of poverty. That some people called the same activity looting when done by black people and "finding something to eat for their families" when done by white people is obviously racist.

These assumptions demonstrate why America is still racist, even if that racism is no longer the malignant in your face racism of Reconstruction and the KKK that lasted well into the 20th century. It is now the racism of unexamined assumptions; assumptions that have 150 years of lies undergirding them.

How did you answer the question at the top of this post?

Understand this. Black people constitute about 12% of the population of the United States. What does your answer tell you about yourself?