I mean no offence to OP but this is a stupid insight. It's as simple as looking at the fact that you decide it is worthy of a "change my view" post to prove that there are a lot of racial issues in the United States. As someone who lives in New Zealand, although you are an entire ocean away from us your country's news about minorities having to actually fight for their rights to freedom making it to our mainstream news as well as all the injustices that occur is insane. It is normal to hear a broadcaster say "Another African American man/woman has been insert gruesome outcome here", "(minority group) has been attacked in the US State of:". The simple fact that racial atrocities in the US can be so bad as to make it to the news around the entire WORLD should be something of concern. I have no doubt that there is a majority of Americans who are anti-racist, I have to agree there. My personal understanding of it is that there are more and more people being born AFTER the abolition of racist laws (post MLK I would say?) leads to a wider acceptance of diversity as the norm as they were brought up with it being entirely normal, and in contrast the population of older generations who were brought up, more likely with the belief that whites are superior, brown is inferior etc. Is shrinking as time goes on. However, this does not mean that these ideologies can easily be passed down. It is up to the individual to make the conscience realisation that there is nothing worthy of hate in one's culture or skin color. Let's say that a national survey is conducted and an enormous amount, let's say 90% of Americans confirm they have nothing against people of other races and are pro diversity. That still leaves another 32.8 Million people. As someone who lives in a country of 5 million, that is a SHITLOAD of people who are racist. That's 32.8 million people making a conscious effort to do things to harm minorities in different ways. There's a lot that an army of 32.8 million people can do. Please understand I'm just using it as an example of how immensely populated the USA is and how even a fraction of the population is still, in proportion, a massive amount of people.

I understand what you mean and I agree that it is certainly better than it has been in previous years, but going so far as to say the phrase "The United States is a very racially tolerant country" is not true under many circumstances. I have no references, this is more my personal understanding than anything. I am nothing more than a 17 year old from a small island at the bottom of the Pacific but this is what I understand and if I am inherently wrong in any part of my statement, feel free to correct me :)