Well, I usually agree with what Mufasa has to say. He’s smart, well-educated, and generally of a level opinion about things. And he made some good points in his post above.
But I think that there’s another side to everything you said, bro. I guess that my own personal experience (being a white guy in Japan) is somewhat analagous to what blacks supposedly experience in America. And I have certainly found that there is a lot of prejudice here, both institutional and personal, both pernicious and benign.
But you know, I’m doing okay.
I think that the prejudice I have experienced here is, objectively speaking, probably worse than anything that any black (or other minority) person has gone through in the States, assuming that that person was born during or after the Kennedy administration. Here, people don’t even assume that I can speak the language. I mean, that’s pretty basic. If they find out that I can speak it, they are then amazed to find out that I can read and write it pretty well too. Try opening up a business sometime when every civil servant that you talk to first has to make sure that (a) you can communicate and (b) you’re literate. It do get frustratin’ at times. 
Try leasing a phone line and being told that you have to have a (Japanese) co-signer - by law. Try waiting ten years before a company will trust you enough to give you a credit card - never mind that your credit is perfect, that you’re a company president, etc. You don’t conform to their rules about what constitutes a good credit risk (and of course you won’t for at least a decade, as the rules effectively rule out anyone who’s not part of the system, i.e. any foreigner). Try walking into a restaurant and having all the waiters and waitresses hold a confab in the corner to see who has to go take your order. Try being turned away from a restaurant because you “couldn’t possibly have a reservation”. (Yes, this has happened to me.) Try any of that, then see if your experience here is really worse than that of being in the States.
“But you left voluntarily…”
So? Doesn’t change the reality. And if any black person thinks that a black-run country would be more to his or her liking, s/he has a lot to choose from in the Caribbean and Africa. But I don’t see a whole lot of emigration from the US.
So what’s my point here? I guess it’s that, yes, prejudice does and probably always will exist. It’s a fact of life. So it’s up to each individual to make of it what s/he will. If someone snubs you because of your color, hey, it’s their loss. There are others around (probably that person’s neighbor) who will treat you right. If someone refuses to hire you, go to work for the competition and do a good job. Put that someone out of business. Competition’s prejudiced too? Fine, start your own company and do some damage that way. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
I’m fairly well-versed in history - both sides of it - and as it happens my best friend, the guy I’d call “brother” if I had a brother, is black. So I’m maybe a little more informed than your AWB. I’m not ignorant of or ignoring reality. But I have to say that a lot of the problems that occur could easily be avoided or at least brushed aside. In my circles - and I’m faaar from politically correct, T-brethren - one’s attitude communicates much more than the color of one’s skin.
Just some thoughts.
Peace.
