Racism against black people, still significant, or not significant anymore?

[anomiep]

23. This is an interesting question

Where I grew up, I don't think it was an issue, at least not in my perception at the time. It's entirely possible that's just a case of, I never held a racist attitude, but I was naive enough to not notice it in others. It's entirely possible that it was never actually a real issue where I grew up, at least not at the time I grew up there. I'm uncertain about that now.

I now live somewhere else, and one of the guys I know locally has been stopped and had his car searched because the cop "smelled marijuana". He doesn't smoke marijuana, but he is black.

Another black guy I know told me that he gets stopped constantly - he's always asked what he's doing around there ... and he lives in that neighborhood.

*Nobody* should have to deal with crap like that, and I think that some specific locales are better than others as far as how much of an issue racism is.

It shouldn't be an issue anywhere, but that's not reality.