Writing from the USA here. The answer to the article’s headline question, for anyone who was born here and has lived for 70 years here is “Hell, no, there is not a racism epidemic in America.” There is an epidemic of progressivist, victimhood propaganda promoted by academia and the mainstream media, along with 50+ years of identity group politics spawned by the leftist wing of the Democrat Party. The increased use of the word “racism” is a mere byproduct of special interests stoking the fires of radical racist theory, and using every incident to further this false and divisive narrative.
My greatest fear is that this phony message will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The vast majority of Americans are decent, tolerant people, without a racist bone in their bodies. But that isn’t satisfactory for the merchants of hate. They only profit when they can convince different groups of people that “those other people” despise them and are oppressing them. We are talking about people like Al Sharpton, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and their progressivist promoters.
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