In this article Hacker tackles the controversial and often elusive issue of racism. It was racism that led Europeans to bring Africans from Africa to the New World for the slave trade at the rate of 100,000 per year for 200 years. It is that same racism that makes America. Before reading this article my conception on racism in America was that it was something of a past time. I never (on a first hand encounter) have …showed first 75 words of 676 total…

…showed last 75 words of 676 total…not give any solutions to problems between the two races, he gives a detailed analysis of the conditions that keep blacks and whites separate and unequal. He does not pose any solutions for the problems. Instead he forewarns us of the dangers of ignorance on an issue like this. I think that, while there is a long, long way to go, we are probably further ahead than we think in our struggle for social harmony.