It is practically impossible to avoid the issue of racism in modern America. With incidents such as the Mike Brown shooting and Eric Garner case, media is always overflowing with racial tension. I heard somewhere that one man referred to it as an infectious disease. I think that this is a very good point. No matter where we go, whether it is a bottle of Aunt Jemima pancake syrup, or a meme on twitter, subtle racism assaults us.
It underlies every advertisement on TV, for example KFC's new commercials, and there is no way that we as americans can avoid it. Racism may have come a long way since slavery, and since the Civil Rights Movement but it still influences our every day lives.
We live in an area where the property lines of towns divide the extremely affluent River Forest from the impoverished and crime ridden Maywood. Of course there is a great juxtaposition in the demographics of the two adjacent towns. Even the classes in OPRF are somewhat segregated. I believe it will still require time and handwork in order to overcome the existing racism in the United States.
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