racism

I have the impression that racism is not a solved problem in USA. I am speaking about USA simply because I am here, while it is certainly not a solved problem in Europe either.
Just this detail: in West Lafayette black people are not so many, or maybe this is my impression. I expected many more in USA. There are probably more black people in Italy.
In West Lafayette, that is at the university, they are few.
But if you just cross the bridge and reach Lafayette, they are many. On buses, along the streets, in shops there are many black people, while in W.L. you always walk among white people.
This is certainly nothing sociological or statistical, but you can imagine that black people are still partially excluded from cultural centers.
It must be something similar to women's condition: in theory the law garantees equal rights for everybody; in practice it is very, very different: mobbing, discrimination, subtle blackmailing, subtle psychological violence ... and above all the mass opinion which is still incredibly male chauvinist.
The presence of black people in universities should be incouraged at least because USA have a huge historical debt of denied human rights towards them. Probably USA are the nation with the most recent history of apartheid in the whole world, after South Africa.
For black people the best way to fight against any discrimination is to increase their presence in schools and universities: the improvement of life conditions passes mainly through education, higher titles, better jobs.