When it comes to racism, white people (like me) have to just shut up. It would be absurd for me to try to tell somebody of color whether or not we are still a racism society. We are racist until all of our non-white fellow citizens say we are not. They know. They live with it. They feel it. We don't. Equal opportunity starts with equal schooling for all, and equal protection under the law. Just as an example of how deep the problem is, some huge percentage of our (white people) wealth has been built through generations of families owning their own homes, while people not white were kept from owning homes by a biased mortgage establishment throughout most of the last century (if not to this day; I don't know).