I know there are still racists in this country, Rose, but it comes nowhere close to what I saw and experienced growing up in the 50s and 60s. My family, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc. were all Democrats and blind racists. They hated black people for no good reason. As far as I know, none of them were ever robbed, raped, beaten up, or murdered by any black person. Their racism was totally irrational. I could never get anyone to tell me why they hated blacks. If it's any comfort to you, they didn't much like Mexicans either. But this was not just my family; everyone I knew was like that.
Several of my cousins and I, began questioning the causes of such racism, at around the age of 14, but we never received any answers that we thought were legitimate reasons to hate other people just because.
But it is not like that now, Rose. No matter what you are told, America is no longer like that. There will always be people who hate people, who are different from them, but an entire society is no longer like that.