<<That [the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts] would be at a minimum 2.25 generations ago. What is today's excuse?>>
The continuing intergenerational effects of past racist policies superimposed on continuing racist oppression that the law is unable to obliterate from the American social fabric, obviously.
<<BTW please cite one racist law still on the books designed to keep the black man down.>>
Racism continues in America as a societal problem, not a legal problem. If the absence of racist laws were taken as proof of the absence of racism in America, the presence of laws penalizing criminal conduct could be taken as proof of the absence of criminality in America. Your "challenge" is ridiculous and absurd. The fact is that the old racist laws in America were proof of, and depended upon, a very high degree of racism in America. The absence of such laws today indicates some waning of the original racist sentiment, but to go from the conclusion that racism isn't strong enough any more to be preserved in the laws of the land to the conclusion that racism has lost all of its force is ludicrous.
<<The real problem is cultural. Not racism.>>
IMHO, the real problem is racism which has, through generations of slavery and then Jim Crow, shaped the cultural problems that you are presumably referring to. So that the blacks are doubly victimized today by racism - - first, by the direct results of ongoing racist conduct of the officers of city, state and federal government and secondly by their own negative cultural traits which themselves are the product of racism.
<<I take it then that as a avowed non racist, you are in favor of illegal immigration?>>
No, I am not. I think every country has a right to control its own borders, by an immigration policy geared to the needs of its people, but that policy should be enacted in a neutral, non-racist way. The problem with the Tea Party is they want to take over the enforcement of the immigration laws in existence for obviously racist purposes. There is no other federal legislation that they are anxious to intervene in enforcing. The signs and comments observed at numerous Tea Party rallies is clear evidence of the racist intent behind the Tea Parties and the efforts of the organizers to "clean up their act" by attempting to cover up the racism is nothing more than whitewashing their own unseemly behaviour to disguise its foulness and offensiveness from non-racist, moderate and/or minority voters.