Is America Irredeemably Racist?

"I just find it so unbelievably irresponsible when people say America's irredeemably racist, that racism problem hasn't gotten any better and that we've made no progress on this stuff," he says. "If you tell people that nothing's gotten better, everything's gotten worse, you're gonna get a lot of people who say, okay, so normal politics and normal reforms don't matter." The share of people in the U.S. who are willing to say they wouldn't mind if a person of a different race move next door has been steadily going down for decades; even the social desirability bias is a sign of progress, CNN reports.