re: racism will never end

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OP, I think that the problem people have with African American leadership is how they try to make every problem a race problem. This obscures more important issues because once the race card has been played, it overshadows all other discussion. From the outside looking in, it seems that certain people who are in a position of power because of leading roles they took during the Civil Rights movement feel that they need to kept beating the racism drum or they will become irrelevant, and so they react to everything like its 1965 Birmingham and people's right to vote is being threatened, not 2015 with a second-term black president in office. Calling for a university president to resign because some students were called mean words on the way to class is ridiculous, and further calling for him to publicly acknowledge his "white privilege" is clear race-baiting. 

There are legitimate social problems connected to some of these issues, such as poverty begetting poverty and lack of low-education employment that would help people in those circumstances improve their lot and take a step towards social mobility, which are not racial problems. Trying to turn them into racial problems prevents rational discussion of them, and is itself racist. Don't you find the conflation of the terms "poor" and "black" insulting? It is African American leadership that continues to push the viewpoint that one implies the other, for their own self-serving benefit.

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