The point is that said laws exist in most of the world, so the racism explanation does not make sense by itself (if https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604655

The point is that said laws exist in most of the world, so the racism explanation does not make sense by itself (if https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26046553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26046553 is true however it would make sense) > America is unique in that their culture has only fairly recently outlawed explicitly, institutionally treating people of other races as lesser than whites USA is far from unique in that regard, certain commonwealth countries have the same issue.