I don ' t know too many conservatives who regularly burn the American flag . They typically frown on those types of things . <| sep |> You ' ll get those sweet karmapoints first <| sep |> I live in Chicago but it ' s also the same in California and New York other places I ' ve lived . I ' m a white passing Hispanic but the friends I had when I was younger , who were Mexican had much , much harder lives in the long run than I have . I think that the news wants to keep inflating this idea that things are getting better , and they are , but that doesn ' t mean racial issues super ingrained and destructive . It ' s why the bad parts of town are poor and populated by minorities but people just say they have a choice to leave . I mean our politics are hugely racialized on both sides and have harnessed a fear of minorities to get their way or blindside people from the smoking gun . The trouble is , racism exists so hugely around me that I really don ' t have an elegant way to explain to you that it ' s pretty bad and it does exist . Here ' s this . I work in film . The stories of minorities are stripped and replaced with characters in a dominant culture made to save people lower on the totem pole . We see white people as courageous , and colored people as aids in the journey , ' savage ' people with primordial knowledge , best friends , villains , or show them only depicted by their trauma slavery , while ignoring their identities to kill a mockingbird . I ' m just saying that racism is everywhere and it ' s insidious . Hell . I ' ve been racist against my own culture . But that ' s what it does to you .