We have come a long way on racism in America. No, racial discrimination has not been eliminated, but the public conversation has evolved to an appropriate place in labeling it.
Only in the 1960s did we begin to separate racism (actions or non-actions) from prejudice (attitudes). And some of the conversations started to use the term 'racism,' where previously, people used the word 'prejudice' more often.
In the late 1960s, Kwame Toure (then known as Stokely Carmichael) and Charles Hamilton taught us that racism was most importantly an attribute of institutions.
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