Roseann Barr made some horrible comments on Twitter, and abc promptly cancelled her show.
Starbucks closed ~8,000 shops in the US to hold anti-bias training for their employees.

Just those two things, in one day, exposed racism as a continuing national problem. Go one week further, when the NFL announced its new policy on kneeling during the national anthem, and it's more than a trending news story. Is it sad or ironic that corporate America made the first moves?

It's a hard topic to discuss. We've danced around it for years, decades, generations. Those who insist we're post-racial (because Obama was elected POTUS, after all) don't seem to appreciate that racism can still live, and grow, in the shadows of culture.

We're in the midst of a new "culture war", with a president (and congress) that got elected by appealing to the fears of white people, as they become a minority group. There are probably other academic explanations, but that's the way I see it: the US is a historically racist nation floundering on its constitutional mandate toward equality.

What do you think?