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Throughout history prejudice and racism have shaped the American psyche vehemently. This bigotry has been the sturdy backbone of America. America has literally been built on slavery, indentured servitude, and exploited cheap labor. In Racist America, the author Joe Feagin essentially asserts that racism is present in every major part of life. Racism influences every aspect of life, that the white on black paradigm is the “archetype” for racial oppression and has not fundamentally changed. Feagin argues that race determines what parents one has, where one lives, the clothes one wears, where one eats, how and where one is educated, and even their political interest. He states that white men often choose to ignore, deny, or rationalize past and contemporary racism. Thus, Feagin has offered his solution in what he calls an “antiracist theory”. I strongly concur with Mr. Feagin’s assertions in Racist America. In Chapter one, “Systemic Racism”, Feagin argues that the U.S. is rooted and planted off racism. The U.S. laid the foundation for a society systemically and systematically racist. Intrinsically this system was to benefit “transplanted” European immigrants and ensure them means of wealth through white privilege