Obviously what I said and the point I was making is way above your head.
No, I got the point you think you were making. A horrible thing happened and people in that area rallied in support, including whites. And that considering the racial issues on other parts of the country, that South Carolina handled it much better. That's great, but the problem is the point you think you're making is bullshit. It's the same horseshit that Southerners have been trying to claim for decades to pretend that much of their history was incredibly different and that race relations aren't just fine they're better in the South (when that is total and complete bullshit; which is not to say that it is better everywhere else).
And furthermore, because of their wanton willful ignorance there's a large portion of the population that has been trying to downplay the awful things in our history. That's why people trying to say "just because this one racist piece of shit killed people doesn't make the flag about that!" are wrong because they've been deluding themselves about what that flag has stood for all along. They think this singular act triggered all of this against the Confederate flag, when that isn't the case at all. And you were missing out on why this has become a major issue once again (and it rings especially hollow for someone to say "South Carolina is better at dealing with race, people should mind their own business" when history shows that to be an incredibly absurd thing to say).
Racism still exists because it's
self voluntary. Self segregation is proof of this, where do people choose to live? With others like them. Even when public policy guides "diversity", studies show it fails miserably and will never work, even when run over a million times in a computer model from an academically acclaimed institution.
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/study-asks-is-a-better-world-possible/
Need further proof? There's no better proof than where people choose where to make one of the biggest investments of their lives (a house). Look at a map of racial "diversity" in the country:
http://www.coopercenter.org/demographics/Racial-Dot-Map
True diversity (i.e. getting people to completely mix geographically) doesn't work and never will. People will always gravitate to others more like them, this has been proven to be human nature and it will need to be accepted as fact rather than theory sooner or later as more and more studies validate it. We are all inherently "racist" to some degree.
I'm not really sure why you quoted me in that post since yours has very little to do with mine (basically other than the word racism it has almost nothing). It's like you think all racism is on the same level. Don't you think there's just a little bit of a difference in the racism those hint at and the enslavement and subjugation of a race?
That first study is about much more than racism too by the way, hope you realize that.
As for that second link, I'm guessing if we charted populations over time we'd find more segregation going back (with there being historical instances where there was intentional segregation that would throw a kink in things and setting things back). So really it might be that over time we see natural integration (or at least maybe racial, I'm guessing social class would still occur, although that's also kinda the point is that certain races have been shown to have disadvantages achieving more diversity in that regard).
What you're missing out is that overall, we're actually trending towards people having more in common with each other. So if people gravitate towards similar people, and we trend towards everyone being more similar, what is the end result?
Racism is still an issue, but I'd guess most discrimination is more about socio-economic class now. Of course that goes back to things like the Civil War and mass immigrations and the growing pains we've experienced from that. The fact that we had a certain specific race held back in that regard is kinda one of the points of why the Confederate flag is total bullshit. People keep talking about the Civil War and slavery like that was all that it was and thus the Civil War ended that but that's not even remotely close to being true. And no, it wasn't just the South doing that either, but again, most of the nation started to move away from it while the South dug in their heels and demanded that they should have the right to be racist and they used that flag as a symbol for that as well. Maybe if some of you people stopped and realized that for more of American History that blacks were secondary citizens denied the same rights as whites than they weren't, you might understand why people are still hypersensitive about it, even with the vastly improved relative state that things are in now.
We're "inherently" animals as well, yet somehow we've moved beyond that. Plus your belief about inherent racism is less about race and more about a natural aversion to differing creatures and other things that can get baked into our genetics and that takes a long time to overcome. And even in spite of that, we've absolutely outright proven that it can be overcome (hell the fact that you're talking about how people tend to accumulate in populations of similar race and class alone kinda shows how far it has come in this country), so acting like nothing can and thus should be done about it is just plain wrong.
Of course there's a lot of other things that could be discussed about all of that, although I'm not sure why you're acting like me condemning the enslavement and subjugation of blacks warrants you bringing up attempts at integration of communities like somehow your "we're inherently racist" argument made slavery ok or justifies racism in general. But none of that is frankly really relevant to this thread.
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