# Post-MLK-Day reflection: How much racism is left in America?  How important is it?

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**Created:** [January 18, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-mlk-day-reflection-how-much-racism-is-left-in-america-how-important-is-it/285381 "2005-01-18T15:56:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-mlk-day-reflection-how-much-racism-is-left-in-america-how-important-is-it/285381/21 "2005-01-20T14:24:13Z")

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I would refer **BrainGlutton** to Ecclisiastes 1:9.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-mlk-day-reflection-how-much-racism-is-left-in-america-how-important-is-it/285381/22 "2005-01-20T16:10:39Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Since the Civil Rights movement we’ve certainly come a lot closer to the America Martin Luther King dreamed of, where his children would be “judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their characters.” But how close? What racism remains in our society? How influential is it?

It’s becoming more prevelant because the poverty pimps are making an industry out of it. As long as they can continue to foment class envy and divisiveness, they make money, and there is no easier way to do it than through skin color.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-mlk-day-reflection-how-much-racism-is-left-in-america-how-important-is-it/285381/23 "2005-01-20T16:46:30Z")

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> [@hlanelee](#):
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> I would refer **BrainGlutton** to Ecclisiastes 1:9.

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> What has been is what will be  
> and what has been done is what will be done  
> and there is nothing new under the sun.

Which might have been a true saying in the 3rd Century B.C., but not since the Renaissance. It doesn’t really relate to this thread.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-mlk-day-reflection-how-much-racism-is-left-in-america-how-important-is-it/285381/24 "2005-01-20T16:48:13Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> It’s becoming more prevelant because the poverty pimps are making an industry out of it.

:dubious: And who, exactly, are these “poverty pimps”?

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