did you become a mod?

 Yeah

Why are you modist.....ouhhh hehehehe!  Femme modest?  Never

I detest racism and I witnessed it first hand in America to such an extent I was completely shocked.  There is not just racism against blacks, Hispanics, etc etc but against white trailor trash as they are called.  I was shocked to the core.  The one reason that I will never go to America again.

Did you read the article in the first post? It´s quite simple-minded to say taht tehre is no racism because the president is black!

What is that? Would you mind elaborating a little bit? thanks...

 if you read my post carefully, i didnt say that theresnt racism in america. do you really think that racism is still the same like in years 60? the fact that there are lots of black within the governmental positions, almost in every administration shows that the situation of blacks has much improved.

its such a shame, that people arent still satified, in every country theres racism less or more.

so far havent seen black presidents or prime ministers in europe.

I do understand what you mean, and completely empathize. I don´t think that´s racism, but I think that it might turn into one, if the community ralations take a bad turn. And I don´t think it´s anyone´s fault other then the politicians´. Such matters should be taken into consideration before allowing massive numbers of immigrants to come to your country. Any massive cultural changes should be introduced slowly and with an emphasis on mixing together, otherwise, groups and gangs will form and will resent each other...

Yes... America has been founded on racism and sexism. (British) white, male, rapists and slave-owners are the founding fathers of this country...

Yes, of course the situation is much better then it used to be. And I think that the issue of race has improved more then the issue of gender, although race has been treated far more despicable then anything else in the past. But it does make me think that we still haven´t had a female president, although women make up 50% of the country, and there´s such huge gender gap in all important areas... But yes, racism is not the same as it used to be, absolutely. It is still there though...

I have no idea if I am a racist or not. Poland is mostly a homogeneous country with people better falling into a stereotypical categories of white catholics. Polish people are often called racists but that stems from the fact that we´re not taught or used to deal with people of different hue. Yes, I imagine a black person would most probably be stared at, probably treated as a weirdo in most cases. In extreme cases there might be violence - I remember when I was in secondary school International House would not bring coloured teachers for fear of their being assaulted. That´s Poles in general - either you fit or you´re persecuted.

These days as our borders have become more open things change - now it´s a "fad" to taste some black coffee as I´ve heard young people say. Polish women often go for affairs with black guys as they consider it a kind of social nobilitation. No wonder an African guy had no problem infecting about 12 Polish women with HIV - they´d screw any black guy to show their open-mindness.

Personally I don´t care what colour people are but I did feel a tad awkward surrounded by Asian and African looking staff in hospital. I´d never have sex with a black guy because I don´t find them attractive - if that makes me a racist, apparently I am one. Yet, I´d have no problem working or being friends with people of colour.

I wonder what accounts for the fact that most people in welfare lines are coloured, even in countries that provide equal chances for all people (US is definitely not one of them as they either have most radical racist organisations like New Order or introduce programmes discriminatory for non-coloured people).

I find it rather amusing that you felt you had to stress the "British" Catwoman.  Do you think I don´t know history?

Perhaps you felt my comment was somehow anti-American, when in fact I was merely stating fact, i.e. that the US has a unique problem with racism compared to the rest of the world due to the slave trade

Well... no, I said British to stress that imperialism is a universal problem. We are talking a lot about the US running the world and exploiting the weaker countries, but US is a country that has been settled by the British who came here, killed all native inhabitants and had their colony here. No, I didn´t feel that your comment is anti-American at all and I did agree with you about the ´special´ nature of the roots of racism in the US.