[Marxism] America's deep-seated racism

[Louis Proyect]

Sayan Bhattacharyya wrote:
> Why do you say this? The message I got from the posted comment was
> that something has indeed changed -- i.e those African-Americans below
> 40 react in a *different* way from those above 40 (i.e. they *don't*
> walk through Macy's in the I-can't-touch-anything way, *don't* put
> their hands automatically on the wheel when stopped, etc). If racism
> remained just as it was before, the younger African-Americans too
> would have developed a similar set of reflexes as the author described
> their parents to have developed, but they (according to the article)
> have not done so.

But you have to take the entire exchange into account. Today an entire 
generation of young Black people are being denied access to well-paying 
jobs. Massive unemployment is just as brutal as Jim Crow.