Do you think racism is still a major issue in this society?

Ya, funny how it works.

You know what I always wonder about:
At first, the Republican party was large in the North and the Democrats were strong in the South
Republicans wanted a strong central goverment and Democrats wanted more power to the the state
And now, it is all flipped around. What happened?

To the OP, while certainly not as large as it was in the 60's and certainly not an important issue anymore in American society, racism is still an issue. If just a not very important one.

Ya it truly is something curious. What is even better is there is no historical event that enticed this change.What I hate is how the republicans all brag about how they had all the tough presidents, but that just isn't the case.

Best American Political Party: The Federalists. They aren't flip-floppers like the Democrats and Republicans.

Fun Fact, the racists in the South are Democrats. They all are. They still belong to the Democratic Party that was racist. It is completely ludicrous to think the GOP is more racist than the Democratic Party.

I wasn't attempting to insinuate that the GOP is rascist, I was only stating fact.

To bad they got destroyed after the war of 1812.

It was all part of the feminists plan. They knew the Federalist party was on to them.

Then Kaiserreich happened?

No, Fallout happened. THEN, Kaiserreich happened. Duh!

I found this video very interesting, and I agree with much of what it says about humans being empathic creatures.
However, I don't believe humans can simply gain empathy automatically. In my view, you only gain empathy with others around you when there are 'others', another group who are seen as different, against whom your group can unite.
This can explain the empathy now felt between countries, as communication has increased, the 'others# go from being a group of hunter-gatherers over the next hill, to foreign countries and continents.

In the context of the Haiti earthquake, humanity then could unite against the 'otherness' of the natrual disaster, which allowed all of humanity to empathise with the Haitians.

So, in order for humanity to unite together, we must either discover an alien species, or we must face unparelled disaster. In my view, uniting together against a common enemy is the only way humans can empathise with eachother, if there is no 'otherness' there can be no 'togetherness'.

Does anyone agree with me on this? Does anyone disagree?

True, but that doesn't mean that race had nothing at all to do with the election.

The past two elections (2000 and 2004) saw at least 10% voting otherwise.
Consider also that their participation moved from 10-11% to 13%.

I am not arguing race wasn't a big reason. I am just saying the majority of them would vote democrat anyways.

But under you definition, shouldn't we already?
You say that an overwhelming obstecle would unite the human race, devoid of conscious awareness.
But don't we already face that on a daily basis to one degree or another?
Of the billions of people on the Earth, at least a half billion have food shortage problems.
Millions suffer from one disease or another.
Others live under tyranny, oppression, etc.
We face all these things, but the human race does not unite.

The fact of the matter is that there are and likely always will be things that the human race can unite to combat, but we don't.

So let me ask you: What is missing?

I think that racism is not as large of an issue as it once was.

My view on humanity is that all humans are naturally evil, even the great men of the world. They are bad in that may lie, or cheat, or steal, or just do a generally bad deed. Their only concern is that of themselves and what they believe. Even in times of great crisis in humanity when they different people unite together, there is usually an ulterior motive for why they do, whether it be simply from the kindness of their heart or for recognition or satisfy their pride, etc. Uniting may seem super awesome and all, but human nature shows there is always some secret, underlying reason to doing what you do. As Imperial says, under your definition, wouldn't we already be united? The UN is our attempt at globalizing (making a global country) but as shown in the discussions over Syria in the UN, there are people who have ulterior motives, good or bad to what they do, and they won't unite unless there is something in it for them.

It started to change when FDR became President.

What changed?

No. There are many, many historical events that caused this change. There is no single, unifying event, but it there are reasons for the shift.

'Evil' is a word used to describe something that we disagree with, not a truth.

Humans have the drive to survive and to reproduce.
Neither of those drives necessarily cause them to do things that are bad to others.
A wolf in a pack has a greater chance to survive and reproduce than a wolf on its own.