The world is less racist because people have chosen to suppress racist speech and policies. Are individual people any less racist than in the past? Who knows?

The world is less racist because people have chosen to suppress racist speech and policies. Are individual people any less racist than in the past? Who knows? Probably unprovable. But our perception of the world is not governed by how people are, it is governed by what people do. And every person has a choice to promote, tolerate, or suppress racism. Choosing the latter is what makes the world seem less racist.