The content of our entertainment is also a sign of the mean times. Moreover, we like violent movies that target minorities. Rap music, usually associated with African-American male recording artists, is considered by Mills to be responsible for very poor attitudes toward human life in general and women in specific. Racism, Sexism, and Anti-Immigrantism. Regarding race relations, Mills tackles the uncomfortable issue of African-American racism against whites.
Further evidence is bias crimes against blacks that have skyrocketed in recent times.
Today's racial meanness has locked us into roles in which racial concession is taken as a sign of weakness. As with racism, we see that in some ways our society has devolved rather than progressed on the issue of sexism. We see it in the resistance to affirmative action programs, programs which angry white men see as favoring women and minorities rather than attempting to grant equal opportunity. At the Republican convention the GOP's frustrations were reflected in the Hillary Clinton dismemberment dolls that vendors sold for twenty dollars apiece. Immigrants do, out of desperation, accept employment that more privileged people do not want, at wages that the more privileged would not consider.