How big of an issue is race these days? Options

[Mommy]

I just don't see a lot of racial tension like I keep hearing about. I guess it's the area of the country we live in? I mean, other than large populations of Hispanics in Texas, we don't have a lot of racial diversity in my opinion. Yeah, I mean, there are cases of Mexicans not like whites and vice versa, but it just seems that race is still a huge issue in the eyes of the media. Do you think it's more nonsense spewing by the media or that there is some merit to these subtle claims that race is still a gigantic issue in America.

Example: The Obama black/biracial controversy

and here is something else I find ridiculous http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2...ee.eastwood.cnn

[Melanie]

Yeah, it all really is about where you live. Border towns are pretty racist.

[Mommy]

Yeah, it all really is about where you live. Border towns are pretty racist.

hell yeah they are, but for some reason it never really bothered me. I even lost a really cool job because they felt uncomfortable working around me. It was a volunteer job, and I was only 14 at the time so I didn't care too much. At that time, I went to a predominately white and black school so I hadn't been exposed to much racism yet. I switched schools a year later to a predominately Hispanic school that had a lot of kids attending there who lived in Juarez (private school). I learned that if you are really accepting of their culture and try to speak their language and stuff, they don't hate you as much. I pretty much only spoke Spanish at lunch time because all my friends were Mexican and spoke Spanish to each other. The people that REALLY got made fun of were the Mexicans that didn't speak Spanish. The girls from Juarez would talk so much shit about them in Spanish and right in front of them because they knew the person couldn't understand them.