We suffer from the problems of racism in the UK but.... the stories we hear about what goes on in the US makes us look like a fully integrated society.

It would have been around 1995 when I spent a week working in Macon, Georgia.
It was around that time a black guy was chained to a pick up truck and dragged to his death - and I don't remember the details of who, why, etc.
I remember trying to tune the radio as I drove to Macon from Atlanta and getting one crazy church minister after another - each one extolling gods virtue - so long as you sent a donation - and seeing the churches set back from the road with car parks like a drive in cinema.
And talking with guys at the factory I was working at, in malls, at the hotel - it was exteremely clear - racism was a foundation stone in the culture of the city..,accepted as normal by everyone.
I doubt it will have changed that much in 20 years.

When I tell people younger and not much younger than me about the segregated bathrooms and water fountains when I was growing up, they are always surprised or shocked.

Won't change with bigot racist in chief in office

I remember reading Black Like Me as part of my college curriculum...it really should be required reading to be in the shoes of a black person for one day...we have to change this...it has been going on way too long and we see to be going backwards now!