Reply #197: Okay, let's take your statement

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"things have changed but racism is still every bit as prevalent today as it was 50 years ago, just alot more subtle"

and examine it. I will assume the statement is 100% true for the sake of this discussion. I take prevalence as the 'number of cases', and 'subtlety' as the 'degree of the cases'. Let 'number of cases' = X. Let 'degree of the average case' = Y. Then, per your description:

X1 x Y1 > X1 x Y2.

But, honestly, racism is not as prevalent. There are not the same number of racist people in the US today as there were in, say, the 1950s (let's adjust for population growth). It's more like:

X1 x Y1 > X2 x Y2.