Has racism come to pass?

With the influx of many races, cultures, and different languages spoken in America, it would only be right to assume that America is putting their best foot forward in diversifying the country. Yet we subtly see things in the media and even in the face of our current president that might cause one to believe there is still a lot of work to be done.



I had a woman of a caucasian persuasion tell me she felt sorry for me because I went to a majority "white" schools while growing up. Did she feel that this hindered my learning process? Did she feel this traumatized me? She went on to tell me how her children at a young age didn't feel comfortable when there was not enough "brown" people around. She even went on to tell me how she had made friends with an older black woman and helped her to try to ease out of the mindset that she still wasn't accepted in the world because of her skin color. The black woman had told her that she had seen some horrid things in life that resulted from hatred of race but made sure that even now she stayed up to par since she had on this eternal brown suit.



Has things changed? Those of us wearing "brown suits" do we feel as if we have to put an extra effort into impressing those not of our color. Are we able to show our grandparents that maybe times aren't as bad as the civil rights era. Or maybe it's a reason why those memories stay forever in their mind. Maybe they are there to help prepare us of a futuristic Jim Crow Era.