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🌐 The Problem with Racism Today is People Don’t Know They are Racist

Published about 20 hours ago • 1 min read

January 14, 2026

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When many people think of racism, they think about things like slavery, lynchings, and Jim Crow. We think about things like in the sign below, where people are intentionally equating Blacks and Mexicans with dogs.

This sort of overt, personal, race-based bigotry is particularly repugnant.

Most people today find this sort of overt hatred to be acceptable. Maybe our grandparents thought it was okay, but today we are more enlightened. The people who hold to these anachronistic bigotries are clearly bad people in most of our minds.

This is where a big part of the current problem lies. In most people’s minds, Racism is bad, and they are good; therefore, they cannot be racist....

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