Yes Pat, racism is still alive in this very day and age. Just look at the Condoleezza Rice situation that has developed. It makes me sick that a well refined woman of her stature, self made with a top notch education, who overcame racial segragation in the south as a child, has been made fun of in a racial manner over last several days. What makes me even more disgusted is the way that she is being treated by many people of her own race!
Here's a perfect example of a double standard. If a black person struggles and does not overcome the barriers that they may face through thier journey in life, it is said, by many of their own people, that the person has been discriminated against, and held down because of thier color. And on many occasions it may be true. But at the same time, if that same person fights thier way through those barriers, self acheives and rises to a prominant postion within the world, those same people who yelled discrimination the first time now accuse this successful person of "selling out" becoming an "uncle Tom" or a "servant mammy" and of compromising with the powers that be! Such has been the case with Condoleezza Rice! It's really a shame that these kinds of names are used against successful minorities by thier own race of people!

So basically Pat, the problem not only exists between whites and minorities, the problem also exists right within the race itself!


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