Taking on the challenge of being part of the solution rather than the commentary.

Racism is a learned trait. No one is born racist. However many people are raised to be racist by parents, other relatives, or members of their community. Since it is so widespread it will be wrapped up in almost every social issue, and appear in all kinds of events, communities, and news. The ongoing civil rights situations  we live amongst today are based on a racist money worshiping patriarchy. These sometimes hard to discern networks of privilege and discrimination are indeed barriers to fixing the problem today. Yet don't lose hope. The best way I can see from my perspective to eradicate this problem, is education. Already more and more parents are teaching their kids that we are all people of the earth here to work together. Yet still in young adulthood the separation and polarizing of people based on skin tone (and cultural differences and family wealth) puts subtle racism in place in the minds of the impressionable. Children who have been taught racism may sway their friends to participate in the same. Organizations based on racist principles may recruit the young as well. And the structures set up to keep the current order are not always obvious and difficult to change. Adolescence is the delicate time that we must educate our youth. Show them to look inward and find the truth at the core that we are all one. To see beyond all the propaganda and fear mongering. To be capable of respecting others no matter their differences. We may not be able to convince the elderly racists that their lifelong hate has been a farce, nor can we stop ignorant assholes from spewing their racist rhetoric. Yet we can work to remove the civil rights barriers in place little by little not just by refusing to participate in stereotyping and educating about the harsh truth of the past but also in everyday life by teaching our youth that there is a better way. Give them all the opportunity to experience understanding and empathy, to know they don't have to give up their culture to respect someone else's.  So that as they become tomorrow's leaders they can go even farther and take the next steps after ours finally collapsing the last of the barriers to change and progress.