VAMatt said:
There absolutely, definitely is a historical racism issue that still effects black Americans (and, to a less extent, other minorities) today. No question about it. Just like there are still rich Rockefellers riding off of the money their family made 6-8 generations ago, so to are there poor people stuck in the lack of education/poverty spiral. With that said, that fact, in and of itself, says nothing about racism in the USA today. |
Strong division between poor and rich is linked to racism. Poor neighbourhoods having darker people and rich neighbourhoods being more whitish doesn´t help to eradicate racism, it makes it more difficult. In the past some thought that darker skin made you less of a human and that justified slavery. The present is build on the past.
