Racism is alive and well in America

Racism is alive and well in America. That includes “liberal” California.

A high school ended its football season after a racist posting “Kill the Blacks” was found on a chat site by administrators at Amador High School in Sutter Creek. That is a community in the Sierra foothills not far from Sacramento. Last week, the football team of another high school near Sacramento, River Valley in Yuba City, forfeited its season after a video showed several players staging a reenactment of a “slave auction.” And last spring at another Sacramento-area high school, Oak Ridge, a football player reportedly taunted a Black soccer player with “ape sounds” during a match.

In Los Angeles three Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official held a conversation last fall that included racist remarks, derisive statements about their colleagues and council President Nury Martinez saying a white councilman handled his young Black son as though he were an “accessory,” according to a recording of the meeting reviewed by the Los Angeles Times and reported on local television news programs. There are calls for Martinez to resign.

I have no solution. Hate of others will not end no matter how so many of us try to stop those that are taught to hate.