There is racism all over the US, it may not be as visible at your workplace but you can feel it in subtlety. My fiancee's company recently promoted a white guy as the CEO and this bugger turns around, looks at the financial statements of the company and decides to fire 6 upper mangement people, CFO, CIO, COO and some other guys, and replaces all of them with "his" people, all of whom turned out to be white.