It took over 100 years for American society to correct the harm done by slavery and its aftermath, through legislation. It took another 30 years for American culture to fully adjust, and for the most part, eliminate racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is a fact of human nature that has always existed and, sadly, it will always exist in a tiny minority of every race. That bears repeating, every race has a tiny minority who are racist against one or more other races. Be that as it may, by 2008 America had succeeded in achieving the state of minimal racism. By any measure, the vast majority of Americans were totally accepting of all races as just another American, or a welcome visitor to America. For all intents and purposes, racism was dead in the United States of America.