Racism and the modern culture

I'm quite sure you've all been in that bothersome situation. You know, the one where the miserable fucking dork to the left of you is explaining that he "isn't prejudiced" because he's got "black friends". Yes, I know, it's one bitter cookie we all will eventually have to taste- and the probability of being forced to swallow this cookie is a great one at that. But besides an immoderate scenario like the one I just described to you, the mother of all questions lies dormant in our society. Is racism, really "over"? I would like to proclaim that it is, and we are progressing as our horizons widen themselves throughout our perceptions, but the more statistics and propaganda I seem to uncover, the more my assumption is swayed toward another reality, and that is, that a large number of minorities are still being treated as second class citizens who have been manipulated into an Americanized variation of their individuality.

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+ Midyear 2009 Incarceration Rates by Race and Gen...

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