IMPORTANT BUT OVERLOOKED FA...

Much of the debate over "Racism in America" is influenced by two factors often overlooked or ignored:

1.  The use of stories and personal or hearsay/third party experiences versus a data and factual evidentiary approach to an event or subject.  For all the value in "having a conversation", people on each of these sides of the discussion talk pass each other.

2. In may opinion, "Race", ie- ethnicity or "color" is not the major root of the divide  The debate should really be about social and economic status and the reasons for that.

3. A third major factor is the changing demographics in this Country which are very well explained in this article-

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/the-eclipse-of-white-christian-america/490724/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-daily-071216