alexandraerin

I tend to agree, I wholeheartedly agree with your central premise. The one objection I have relates to the video, this is not the best example of systemic racism, HP tends to make crappy products that have been insufficiently tested, this is a fine example of that.
We can talk about discrimination is housing options, yes it still happens that minorities are "discouraged" from living in certain areas. Earlier this year a Justice of the peace in Louisiana refused to give an interracial couple a marriage certificate. And what about profiling by law inforcement? Lets no forget the huge amount of bigotry based on social class and religion. The Obama administration has passed up opportunities to make good on his campaign promises to further rights for GLBT people, instead spending his political capital on more poplar projects. And lets not forget that less than a year before he was elected, people in the national news media, as well as people on the street, were still making comments about "how well spoken" Obama is.

Sure we should fight racism in all it's forms, if we let the little things go, how can we expect to fight the big ones? but to cite Hanlons Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."