Cataholic,

The racism that still exists is why we have lawyers and a legal system. It can be fixed, but it will NEVER be completely cured, especially while we have lovely groups such as the KKK, Nation of Islam, Black Panthers, World Church of the Creator, etc. in existence and spreading their message.

I'm a firm believer that racism is willful ignorance. I abhor it, and step on toes (and other body parts, both literally and figuratively) when I hear or see it.

It doesn't help, however, that in some cases, there are people who scream ___ism whenever they don't get what they want. That twists the perception of the masses when there are REAL ____ism cases being fought in courts. While I have no issue with court cases where there is geniune bias at play, decisions such as the recent one from LA (The firefighter who screamed racism at being fed dog food in his dinner, won megabucks, only to have court documents show that he was the instigator in similar cases) make a mockery of the system.