I disagree. Among my family and associates are people of Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Irish, German, British, Scottish, French, Native American, and Asian descent (and probably others I didn't think of.) Many of these folks retain and celebrate their various cultural heritages and among them are people as different as night and day. But not one of them considers himself or herself inferior or superior to the others in any way, nobody feels entitled to any special attention or privilege based on their ethnicity, and there is no racism.
Well that is the exception and not the rule. These foreigners nowadays think we should cater towards them, instead of assimilating into our culture. If I take a trip to Russia, I'd expect to learn a few phrases in Russian, what I wouldn't expect is the Russians to learn English to coddle me, it doesn't work that way.
Racism is a taught and learned behavior.
Says the person who willfully swallows all that the media spoonfeeds him.
It does not have to be part of the American culture.
Diversity is an evil that should have never happened. Forced integration is just as wrong as segregation. People were literally forced to integrate at gunpoint. Back when my grandparents were coming up, in the 50s, if they were out late the only worries they had were if their father was gonna woop them for being late, but now OTOH, a kid must worry about being beat up, getting his salad tossed, kidnapped, or worse. During segregation, blacks only had fellow blacks to choose as victims, but now, thanks to liberal policies, every white man or woman in America is a potential victim to black or brown violence. And we all have multiculturalism to thank for this.
I disagree that my experience is the exception rather than the rule. I think most Americans are pretty much live and let live and prefer not to think about race at all but just live and work and play together without all the politically correct garbage to deal with.
I agree that forced diversity has more downsides than upsides. I disagree that blacks are more of a problem for whites than anything else. It is true that a disproportionate percentage of black people are committing crimes, but more than 90% of crimes committed by blacks are black on black crimes. It is criminal that so many black children are forced to live in that kind of environment, but nobody is going to change that environment until the people living in it choose to change it.
Racism and the ugliness surrounding it will continue, however, so long as there is profit or hope of profit in it. Remove that profit motive, and we'll get a lot closer to the colorblind society that should be everybody's goal.