Respectfully, I recommend you stop using the word "racism"--firstly, it's inadequate for accurately describing the contradiction that has eaten away at this country since its founding, and secondly, reactionary (and complacent) "persons of white" have misappropriated the term to where it's an immediate reaction to any "person of color" who even SUGGESTS that "racism" wasn't abducted by aliens immediately after passage of Brown vs. the Kansas Board of Education in 1964.

A more accurate description of the inherent character of US social, political, economic, judicial and educational institutions from the "founding fathers" down to fifteen minutes ago is "white supremacist".  This was a nation created of white people, by white people and for white people.  I hold this truth self-evident--the US is and has always been a white supremacist country.  That has to change.