What does racism look like today?

As a matter of fact, the days where racism inhabited the minds of the young and the ignorant are slowly fading away, but they are not over yet. We talk about equality and end of segregation in public places, but the true origin of discrimination lies inside us, in our everyday actions.

Of course we, as a generation, have grown and evolved beyond the racist conventions that polluted our society in the past, but still, we might not realize of what we do and even teach those kind of practices to the upcoming generations, merely disguising the damage by making it look normal.

 “Over two hundred years of racial prejudice in the forms of slavery and Jim Crowe laws have worked their way into American consciousness.” –Kevin Hannon for The Beacon (2012)

Now, some may argue that there is no such thing as racism nowadays, that we live in a fair, inclusive society ruled by the acceptance of our differences, but that idea might sound a little bit overoptimistic for other people. Here's a example:

Last year, in Houston, Texas, local police arrested two African American dancers, both men who were escorting a 13-year-old white girl to an event, which was cause enough for police to react. “They just pulled us out of the car and put our hands behind our backs like we were criminals,” said one of the men.

The two dancers explained that the girl was their student, and even offered to show officers a notarized letter stating that they had “full guardianship” while they were in the state. But police didn’t budge. They brought the two men to the station and took the girl into Child Protective Services.

Cases like this one occur everyday, all around the world, when will we come to the realisation that the struggle is not over yet?