Why is racism still a political issue even though it ended with the Republican Civil Rights Act of 1964?

[Real America]

Because people lose their place in evolution and society and want to outlive their existence. Jordan David and Trayvon Martin was a start, next we will get every boy who is capable of spreading his seed.

[CharP]

Because far too many Blacks frittered away their newfound Civil Rights for free Government cheese.

[Sean]

It is used as a divisive ploy to both distract from truths and draw attention to political falsehoods for party support. "Look over there at the bad, we're the good, trust us, vote for us."

[Tough Ombres]

you gotta love this one; "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."" — Lyndon B. Johnson

and another;“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” Lyndon Baines Johnson about the Great Society plan.

[Zhu Bajie]

Because it didn't really end. It just wasn't quite as legal as before.

[Progress]

Go to a Tea Party rally sometime.

There are 14,000 racists tweet on Twitter every day.

Just read the right-wing questions on Yahoo Answers. Clearly, it hasn’t ended.

[Mike M 7]

because it makes money

[Joshua]

Racially aware people are smart. I do not agree with half the answers. If you think that blacks Mexicans natives like and support white Americans your highly mistaken. And to answer the question it is the attitude and way they act. They are animalistic take the Rodney king riots? Why torch your own neighborhood? Killed any white that came into the area or at least tried to. Why were white kids beaten after trayvon was exposed as a thug? Why is it white victims of black murderers not public national trials?

[whoyeah]

Because it's still out there as nasty as it use to be. They just don't get away with it as much... so far.

The savage killing of James Byrd Jr shook the conscience of the nation, reviving America’s nightmarish legacy of lynching and racially motivated violence. One hot night in June 1998, a trio of young men driving along a country road near Jasper offered Byrd a ride. Instead, they beat him, chained his ankles to the back of their pick-up truck and dragged him for more than two miles.

[Andy and Suzanne M]

Because politicians are still using "racism" for their political advantage to this day - to keep those they consider beneath them on the plantation and voting for their party. Right, Democrats?