With US new president, do you belive that racial discrimination would be erased?

It defnitely won't be erased. At best, the racists will hide their racism a little better, but it won't go away, unfortunately.

Reading the question and responses, it's evident that all things "racial" will never die out. Since the late '60's, there have been fewer and fewer acts of racial discrimination and/or violence every single year. Today, they're virtually non-existent. Guys like Al Sharpton would seriously be put out of business in this new millennium if not for questionable comments made by guys like Imus and whimsical, harmless cartoons from the New York Post that excite his Civil action sensibilities. Once that happens and one of the activists take up the cause, it's suddenly in the news again that America is most racist place on Earth. However, the fact that "racism" is now definied as ANY slight from a white person towards a minority simply proves that "racism" is dying on the vine. It's also proof positive that most claiming racism do not have a leg to stand on. I also cite the teachings of professors like Michael Eric Dyson as proof that REAL racism has been replaced by this mythical, conspiracy-driven "code" racism. They're basically claiming that 66% of the population is simply scared of 12% of the population, thus the majority hides their true colors carefully... yet they (the Dyson wagon riders) can ALWAYS spot it. lol And aliens live among us, too! From the late 70s and beyond, racial discrimination in the workplace - as in, hiring or firing based on race - became, literally, a thing of the past. In fact, affirmitive action worked so well that it's now white people being discriminated against, as employers are preemptively acting in the best interest of their public persona. Just ask Robert Reich. With minority organizations working only for minorities (obviously), the ACLU working only for leftists (minorities icluded), and the mainstream media working only for the left, racism seems to run rampant through the streets of the nation. But that's just not the case. What we're basically left with in America today is a system that's so unrelentlessly biased toward minorities that a lot of the "racism" everyday people feel is pure bitterness. The idea of racism is bigger than black and white in general. But the way it's described on the news and by activists is that it's discrimination coming from whites towards minorities -- primarily African-Americans. My point: If people stop looking for ways to make things "racist" and just let people be people without attaching labels to them, then and only then will American citizens view each other as simply Americans. Racism has always been a two-way street. Just because blacks, Asians, Hispanics, etc, are in the minority percentage of the population doesn't mean that they're not capable of being racists as well. White people of today's America catch a lot of crap for what a very, very, very small percentage of white people from years past did. But to examine the racial climate in 2009, you'll find that the racial tension isn't coming from the majority. I would have to ask: Why is that? I think Al and them know the answer :-) Let Americans be Americans and watch the idea of racism evaporate. That's my prediction.

May God forbid such a thing! Seriously, discrimination for any reason is oppressive and against every single religious teaching there is. It doesn't matter to me what religion one professes, discrimination is stupid and vile.