This was just my experience even growing up on the west coast in Los Angeles. The best way I can describe it was a combination of long term brainwashing, people who were white and black not being together and making friends very much and just plain ignorance of most people.
It wasn't that anyone really wanted people to be injured (except the most crazy and racist people). No. Most people just had been mostly brainwashed by a parent or grandparent that maybe had survived the Civil War era. So, this kind of "Less than" thinking from hundreds and thousands of years of ignorance and racism dies pretty hard.
What I'm trying to get at is that until most people went to college (which didn't start until the Viet Nam war, there was a lot of ignorance and mistrust between the races. And it was even worse between like the Scottish and Irish and English and French and Italians and Spanish and Germans etc. during the 19th century. So, it wasn't just racism it was anti-nationalist as well. But, over time people of all nationalities got more used to each other especially out in the country where everyone depended upon everyone else just to survive. So, especially after the Civil War and World war I people got closer to each other. This also happened during World War II because of the Draft and so many people of all races fighting and dying together.
Though people think we are less racist now than during World war II, I think in some ways they are wrong.
I just think racism has become much more a subtle thing than before. It's still there just in a very different form than before. And sometimes the people who feel they are the least racist actually are the most closet racists and don't really understand this very well at all.
Because what racism really is now is "Economic Racism" that puts more people who are black or Hispanic or Muslim in jail than they do whites here in the U.S. and that prevents people of color from succeeding on an equal footing to white people economically.
Because in the end it is mostly about the right to make the same amount of money and to be able to pass it on to your children and grandchildren in some form. If you cannot do that you are screwed.
Even if you make a lot of money and you cannot easily pass it on to the next generations that really is the worst racism of all.
So, I would say the racism now is about other races than white having trouble passing down wealth to their children and grandchildren. So, it is less about basic human rights now, it is more about being able to pass down wealth to your children and grandchildren.
And in this sense America is still a very racist country, because passing down wealth in the U.S. if you are black or hispanic or any race or nationality other than White Anglo Saxon Protestant is still really really hard because of the ways our laws are still traditionally set up to discriminate against women and Blacks and other races. But, if you are a woman likely the best state to live in likely would be California because Spain is a matriarchy and our laws still give women a lot of rights, more than most states in the U.S. do now.
Note: Our legal system in California was set up originally by Spain and Mexico starting in 1542 when it was first discovered by Spain. It didn't become a part of the U.S. until September 9, 1850 So, basically California's legal system had already existed over 300 years when it became the State of California in 1850. And this system came from Spain's matriarchal system which benefits women and children a lot.
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