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America today is not a racist country, but it is a country where racism still exists. There’s a wide distinction between the two. Kerr: America is not a racist nation — but it's not perfect ...
Waxman warns against being too alarmist about whether it presages the decline of American democracy, a la Germany in the 1930s, as America still has strong democratic institutions.
Multiple factors go into how stereotypes are established, such as age and the setting in which they are being applied. [106] For example, in a study done by the Entman-Rojecki Index of Race and Media in 2014, 89% of Black women in movies are shown swearing and exhibiting offensive behavior while only 17% of White women are portrayed in this manner.
The idea that America is post-racial, or close to it, has played a role in at least one United States Supreme Court decision. In Shelby County v.Holder in 2013, the court invalidated a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that had required nine states with particularly severe histories of racial discrimination to obtain federal approval for any change to their election laws. [31]
Anti-Catholic sentiment, which appeared in North America with the first Pilgrim and Puritan settlers in New England in the early 17th century, remained evident in the United States up to the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, who went on to become the first Catholic U.S. president in 1961.
Being near black and Latino people doesn't decrease racism. One thing is clear: Most of the cities with high anti-black sentiment are areas with high black populations.
[32] [citation needed] The characterization of America as being a racist nation in the modern country is politically divisive, with Democrats largely favoring the notion that America and Western Society as a whole are built on racism, whereas Republicans largely maintain that while inequalities do exist, they are not the result of racial ...
America today is not a racist country, but it is a country where racism still exists. There’s a wide distinction between the two. Kerr: America is not a racist nation — but it's not perfect ...