"TRUE RACIAL JUSTICE REMAINS AN ILLUSION IN AMERICA FOR THE BLACKS"

America is the true melting pot of the human universe today as well as the most racially and ethnically diverse nation in this 21st century. Race in America continues to be a boiling issue in almost every aspect of the American life in a nation that is truly a union of all human races. The history of America has been about race from its onset. The ideology of racial superiority of the white Americans gave birth to the establishment of the system of the black slavery in the South that last for 250 years in America. The official abolition of this slavery system in 1865 was immediately followed by the Jim Crow laws or the segregation laws in the Southern United States that legally and officially denied the free slaves of America their equal rights and justice for another 100 years. The civil rights struggles of the 20th century that reached its national apex in the 1960s produced the federal laws that were designed to address all forms of segregated and discriminatory practices in America, such as, racial discrimination in voting, in the public distribution of the social services, in our education system, in public housing and in employment by both the public and the private employers. 

A number of important developments have happened in America since the 1960s to date that have further divided this nation along the same old racial lines and reopened the old wounds of the past racial injustices. One of those cases was the acquittal of the four white police officers in Los Angeles in 1992 by the jury despite the videotape evidence that showed the police brutality of Rodney King. There are also too many recent documented incidences of the aggressive police profiling of the members of the racial minority groups across America. It is also on record today that in the America's criminal justice system, the blacks are over-represented, over-arrested, over-prosecuted and over-sentenced inappropriately in America. The recent acquittal of George Zimmerman over the killing of the 17 years old black boy, Trayvon Martin has further divided this nation along the sensitive and the highly divisive racial lines.

In conclusion, the political struggle today that will achieve an American nation that practices equality and equal justice before her own laws for all Americans from all the human races, ethnic groups, cultures, national origins, religious faiths, cultural identities, genders and sexual orientations must continue unabated in our lifetime until a more perfect union is finally achieved. America is not yet a color-blind society today in 2013 and her human institutions as they stand today are not also 100% color-blind in all reality.