what - certainly not in america! not in this day and age..

No - sadly racism is still very much alive and the race card is being played again.  I've seen too much of it with friends who don't have the right skin color (very strange as biologically the concept of "race" doesn't make sense.  It is a visual/cultural label we use to divide people)

Jim pointsto two good articles

 

Jamelle Bouie writing in The American Prospect

and 

Ta-Nehisi Coates writing in The Altantic