South Africa-US

I had read someone's blog post in which they were saying how their visit to South Africa taught them about their own country, the US.

The apartheid in SA only ended a little over a decade ago, in the mid 90s. While Jim Crow laws only ended 40 years ago.

People have this belief that once some form of official tyranny/terror has ended that life itself is different. People assume that because Jim Crow ended 40 years ago that racism should be gone. They assume the election of Obama proves this. But so many racist incidents directed at blacks have proven that 40 years is not enough.

In fact I would argue that you lack common sense if you say racism is gone. In a country that has hundreds of years of racism, a country that only survived and existed through racism, there is no way the work that racism has created in this country will come undone in the course of 40 years. It will take hundreds of years to undo that kind of damage. In fact, there is a reason many whites try to hang on to their racism, its not just because of their privileges they get from being white buts its the fact that countries like America will fall without having a minority that it can bully and abuse. Countries like America thrive off of someone else's blood. I mean only an idiot would say America isn't blood thirsty, if you believe America isn't blood thirsty, please do yourself a favor and take a couple of history classes.

What I am curious about is just how bad SA is considering the end of tyranny happened only a decade ago. I mean you look at the US, its still majority racist, only in a new form. It is now in the covert way rather than overt way. Closeted racism is socially acceptable. This kind of racism is worse in the sense that you don't know who to trust and who not to trust.

Its hard to know who has more success right now at undoing the damage that whites have caused, considering in South Africa its majority black and the US is not. All I know is that if the US has yet to make much progress, it would be dumb to assume any other country, especially SA could make much progress.