Not so much on the level of person to person or neighbor to neighbor, but certainly at the societal level. I wonder, since economic disparity is your indicator of racism and discrimination, that if that indicator is not largely historical. Simply, it takes money to make money, and blacks started out with less money as a result of slavery, so are more likely to be at the bottom of the ecomimic chain, with whites more likely to still dominate the top. What do you think of this as an explanation as opposed to calling it racism. To be sure, it is the vestiges of racism, but not current racism.
History is one factor, to be sure.
And I certainly accept the fact that there's less overt racial discrimination in this country than there used to be. We're about half-way through our discussion, please continue to submit your questions using the hyperlink below. Racial identity certainly has a fluidity in Brazil that it doesn't have here. For example, I met a woman in Salvador who was black, who defined herself as black, but whose children were light-skinned and had been recorded on their birth certificates as white. In the U.S., as you pointed out, you're black forever or white forever.