Racism is not dying

[OneGrassRoot]

28. I agree. It's not dying...

At least since the 70's, the same 30% of hardcore racists have been in place as they are now. They simply went more underground with their bigotry since it became "politically incorrect" to use the slurs they so prefer. THAT's why they hate what they call "PC."

They're hatred, fueled by fear, has been festering like a boil for decades. It started to seep out more visibly to the general populace when Palin came onto the scene, and Biff ripped the scab off for the pus to flow freely.

Generation after generation is affected. It's amplified now, even in kids who didn't grow up in such an environment, due to the Internet and social media.

We can't assume it's going to die off with the Boomers. It isn't. Not without a lot of work.

I maintain that we can make laws which are obviously important, such as the Civil Rights Act, but until we face the CULTURAL and systemic nature of white supremacy, this cycle will continue.

It's naive to think otherwise, imo. I speak with confidence on this matter because I grew up in a KKK environment and thus became very familiar with racist, bigoted behavior from a very early age. I know racism and how it manifests across spectrum of behavior and, as mentioned, systemically. It's everywhere.

Certainly there has been progress in some areas and I don't mean to negate that, but it's not remotely dying off, even if we comfort ourselves by thinking what we're seeing is simply the last gasp of a dying belief system.