No, Pooch, it IS the case for the United States. You don't take 400 years of racism away in a five year span of rewriting a few laws.
Nonsense. Racism exists in all parts of the world, and black racism is MORE pervasive now than white in the US. The reason for this is that it is now acceptable to be a Black Racist, as it once was acceptable to be a White Racist. (It's just not acceptable to LABEL it racism.) The very appropriate (and long overdue) backlash against White Racism that took place in the fifties and sixties led to a lot of laws, court decisions and the like that changed the legal landscape. But the more lasting effect of that backlash was to change the mind of the majority of Americans. Of course there are white racists in America, and the first amendment even allows the most brain-dead of them to spout off their nonsense in public. But unlike fifty years ago MOST Americans do not agree - not even tacitly - with what they say. They are no longer leaders, they are the lunatic fringe. Far more Americans still have racial prejudice, but they sublimate it into personal prejudice. They know better than to endorse discrimination. Most of them don't even WANT to discriminate. They accept the idea that races are equal, they just can't overcome their natural prejudices. This is not an American condition, it is a human condition, as you have pointed out.
African-Americans, however, consider themselves justified in their brand of racial hatred. It isn't racism, they say, because you have to have POWER to be a racist. That's just a self-serving redefinition of the word. Black people use racial slurs and stereotypes in describing white people with impunity. Oprah Winfrey can build a school, recruit all black children to attend and then when questioned about it say "I don't have to explain myself to white people." (Yeah, I know, that's not the exact quote but it is an accurate representation.) Imagine if Rush Limbaugh did that with the appropriate racial adjustments. Oprah Winfrey is a racist. She is even a racist by the PC definition, because there are few people in America with her clout. There's a real good chance that had she endorsed Hillary, this wouldn't even be a race. But why endorse a white person - even a woman - when there is "one of us" running. But nobody will call her a racist, because Blacks can't be racist.
African-Americans continue to use the tired old "racism" excuse for all of their social ills, personal failures and bad decisions. And yes, I am broad-brushing, but there IS a cultural mindset among African-Americans that says the White Man is their real problem. Even Barak Obama, who is very likely to reach the highest office in the land, still whines about the White man. The justification for hatred of White people is that Whites have always been - and are still - holding blacks down. Horsecrap. White people held black people down for a long time, but that time is past. While some residual barriers still remain from the slavery and Jim Crow years, most Black people today are held down by Black people - very often themselves. One of the biggest barriers to many black people is their own prejudice. They use it as an excuse to fail - and then blame that failure on others. That, too, is a human condition - it's called rationalization.
Now there is one possible difference between White Racism and Black Racism in America. White Racism was a function of the idea (once widely-accepted) of White Supremacy. Whites believed that their race was naturally superior to other races. That's what gave them the right to enslave blacks and steal land from indigenous peoples. Black racism OTOH, though sometimes based on Black Supremacy, is more often based on White Inferiority. It is the belief that, whatever place the black race may hold on the totem pole (if there even is one) White people are at the bottom. Whites are the evil overlords who rape and pillage the world. The mindset, while racist and wrong, is at least far more justifiable and easy to forgive. It's hard to view people in a good light who have treated your people like hell for centuries. But however good the excuse for the attitude may be, it is not correct and it IS racism. When I can't get hired because a less-qualified black man is up for the same job, when someone picks a fight with me just because I'm white in the wrong part of town, when juries free a murderer just because he is black and they are too, it's the same damn thing as when the shoe is on the other foot. Racism is racism and, at the risk of creating an awful pun, I tend to like to call a spade a spade.
