White Racism: It is there but ignored - a lot.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/you-calling-me-racist-why-its-so-hard-whites-confront-their-own-failings

Statement: Racism is deeply embedded in our system.
Response: Don’t you dare call me a racist!
The mass incarceration of blacks and the Detroit bankruptcy Grand Bargain each perpetuate a pattern of institutionalized advantages for whites. Similar subsystems sustain white racial advantages in healthcare, longevity, income, wealth, life-threatening interactions with police, real estate, finance, education and virtually every other aspect of life.
Does that mean nothing has improved for African Americans? Of course not. Does it mean that life is never difficult for whites? No. Does it mean that white racism is not dehumanizing and disempowering for whites? No. Whether they are aware of it or not, white racism is dehumanizing and disempowering for whites.
Does it mean that we are irrevocably locked into a zero-sum organism that requires that in order for blacks to do better whites must do worse? Absolutely not, even though that viewpoint is actively advanced by those most vested in maintaining white racial advantage.
But the enduring power of systemic white racism does bring us to this: every white person has a choice. We can either condone the status quo that perpetuates advantages for whites or we can support changes in attitudes, policies and behaviors that would reduce black/white inequities and make a better life for all.
To say it as plainly as possible: those who support change are anti-racists. Those who support the status quo are racists. So are those who abstain, since that too operates to keep things as they are.  
Does that seem harsh? Perhaps. But if it does, it is because for 500 years white people have wanted to have it both ways. We are attached to the advantages we enjoy from a system rigged in thought and deed against blacks. At the same time, whites also want to be seen by ourselves and others as morally pure, even superior. To paraphrase former Texas Governor Ann Richards, despite the system being rigged in favor of whites, we deeply prefer to believe we hit a double when in reality we were born on second base.