Myths/racism is over

For awhile after the election of Barack Obama as the first Black president, there were claims that racism was no longer a problem, that we are now living in a post-racial America. These claims seem to have subsided, but we remain on the lookout for any specimens in the wild.

It nonetheless seems worth collecting evidence to refute this, since there is so much of it and yet it can be difficult to search for.

Racism was of course a huge factor in drumming up opposition to Obama during the 2008 campaign, and appears to remain a major component of the unreasoning hatred many conservatroll followers seem to feel for him.

Evidence

Incidents

• the many groups which pop up in support of the police any time a police officer wrongly kills a dark-skinned person
  • incidents include Ferguson, George Zimmerman vs. Trayvon Martin, many others
• the continued existence and activity of the KKK

News Items

• 2014-02-07 Racism and Homophobia Lose as Nearly 50% of Viewers Dump Duck Dynasty: it may be unpopular, but it still exists
• 2014-03-08 More hate from racists – Coalburner edition
• 2014-05-12 I Get Racist and Sexist Hate Mail: when called out on it, they just double down
• 2014-11-27 Being black(ish) in America "Instead of blaming us for how we dress and saying we dress like “gangstas,” why not tune your police and your fucking mind to understand that’s just how we dress?"
• 2014-12-04 Minorities Trapped in Tropes: The Conservative Right’s Cognitive Dissonance on POC Humanity includes screenshots of several racist comments

Discarded Evidence

• 2014-11-20 Top Nevada Republican Lawmaker Ira Hansen Called Blacks ‘Simple-Minded Darkies’: in context, the quote represents Hansen's opinion of how Democrats view Black people: "The relationship of Negroes and Democrats is truly a master-slave relationship, with the benevolent master knowing what’s best for his simple minded darkies." I was unable to find any overt racism in these quotes during a quick read-through; a more careful reading may find some.
  • Meet Nevada’s new Assembly Speaker

Links

Reference

• Issuepedia: US/racism