MUTE YOU ALL SO I DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND MWAHAHAHA
Alright, but seriously. I'm clearly going to have to look over Putin's link again regarding its level of controlling for external factors. I didn't get the impression on initial read that it did all too well, but that might have been the fault of a quick scan + confirmation bias, so I'll give it another read and readdress.
And I'll admit "all there is" is certainly an overstatement, as some small fraction of the community is still racist enough not to hire a superior candidate for a job. From my own experience living in the Deep South, though, that number is a pretty small fraction even within the heart of reactionary race bullshit. The owners of businesses might still be very much racist, but they're still reasonable enough to hire the clearly superior candidate for a job. They don't let their racism get in the way of sound business. And even the number of business owners who are racist isn't as big as it's stated to be.
Regarding monkeys, the only person I've heard characterized in that manner (aside from Obama, who will be addressed) is Bush... and if there are racist undertones there, I missed it completely. As for Obama, while there are obviously still those who are all "BAAAAWWW BLACK PRESIDENT NOOOO," their number is again rather small. What I have noticed, though, is that you have rather staunch conservatives who absolutely hate the idea that Obama got elected because he, to them, seems extremely far left. They are rather expressive of that opinion. Then SUPPORTERS of Obama make it a race thing by assuming the opposition to Obama must be because he's black. This in turn further incenses these people, building up the resentment for Obama even more by association with his followers, leading to more vehement expressions of outrage which seem to fuel the racebaiting even more.
As for law enforcement, I'm inclined to agree, because I've found they are in fact rather racist as an institution. However, that does not extend to academia, which (from my limited experience) is probably the least racist government institution in existence.
That's the main thrust here. Police departments may be (are) racist. Some businessmen may be (are) racist. Universities are not racist in the anti-minorities sense. I've actually found myself in classes so far with only a year to my name in college that are overtly reverse racist -- and not in the conservative [politically] use of the word for basically anything that might try to address any correlation between race and economic status, but in the literal sense that I have been told by a (white, ironically) professor that white people are bad. (Not so childishly, obviously, but that was his point.) Haven't seen standard-issue racism and you can bet the farm I won't while I'm there unless it's some hungover frat douche chiming in on a class on African politics. (Apologies to frat douches. Not.) I don't think anyone would disagree with the notion that the governing bodies of universities aren't racist, including admissions. So the notion that we need these policies for higher education doesn't seem right to me.
Even if we concede that there is a wide racial issue (which I'm not, yet, but say we do concede it) -- the economic problem should come first. Trying to fix the economic problem first starting with, as I believe you and others observed already, improving education at all levels, K-12 as well as college, will have an immediate positive impact on society and will have a better payoff than just fixing the racial issue. You get that fixed and you see the results of it and see if race is still the decisive issue it's being cited as here. I suspect it won't be. (And if it is, better that you at least fixed the economics and brought the impoverished out of poverty, right? Race would still need to be handled, but the gain from fixing the economic problem first is greater and would probably help the racial problem if it exists anyway.)
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On a side note, Putin, where do you get all your studies and such from? It would be helpful to have a resource like that for these and other discussions so that I'm not sitting here arguing qualitatively all the time.
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