Living in Texas, Barack Obama's election and re-election galvanized racism in some. There's been a backlash, but it's mostly among people older than I am. One stripe of society still believes that the best black man is still less than the least of white men.

For some time, these attitudes had lain below the surface, out of sight, or hidden behind polite smiles.

It's going to take another generation for this sort of thing to go away down here. Maybe longer. Same as gay rights.

I agree with rustle, and I am from Mississippi.  A long way to go, and a short time to get there.  I hate how many southerners regard race.  It is not a good thing.  Thank goodness my daughter and grandson rise above it.

Maybe its a product of a northern metropolitan area, but for a long time race seemed to stop being an issue at all. But then, gay couples haven't really raised too much issue either. Or perhaps that is more a perception of mine. I grew up in the 60's and 70's where race was a real issue in the schools around here. "Black" and "White" hallways that most would go 3/4 of the way around the school to avoid going down the "wrong hall". 

But race seems to come back as an issue every so often, most notably when there are issues like the Rodney King or the George Zimmerman trial.  I think that all references to race should be forbidden during a trial like these and the jurors be blindfolded. The bottom line should have been if a neighborhood watch member shot a suspected trouble maker and why, not the color of the skin on either side of the issue. 

I see the ACLU making a big fuss in a situation like this. Black people and Hispanics mostly it seems. Has the ACLU ever stood up for other races? Native Americans, White and Asians  have civil rights too ya know!

Um, maybe I'm missing something, but the second vid is surely about the ineptness of the TV anchorman
And the first vid - I needed to turn on the subtitles. Were those kids really speaking English?

As for the race thing, that's pretty depressing. Did the US learn nothing from the horrors of the 20th century?
 

It's whatever. People are bored...hating has been around the whole time and half of it doesn't matter. In a year some other stupid issue is going to pave its way thru all the dumb housewife talks of suburban America...people can riot all they want over zimmerman or obama...please kill each other...please....in a piss poor economy, ppl are just fucking bored...talk about something else....and just fyi...I'm racially superior