19th August 2004, 9:07 AM
DJ, surprisingly I actually agree with a lot of your stances on these issues, but I think that you like most people here don't know just how much of a problem racism still is. The thing is that it's subtle racism that is wide-spread, which in many ways is worse than blunt, obvious racism because it's more difficult for other people to see, therefor making most people think that racism is all but completely gone. It's not, I have seen such racism first-hand, and it disgusts me. And before you ask me, no, I'm not confusing it for anything else. I have friends of various different races and when I spend time with them in public I notice these things. The worse thing we can do right now is try to convince ourselves that racism is no longer a wide-spread problem in our society. It will only get worse that way.