[PinstripesAndPithHelmets]

Sternn, you talk a good game. But seriously, what percentage of the UK's population do minorities make up? I don't know for a fact, but I'd wager it's proportionally much smaller than that of the U.S. Why is this? It's because during the era of decolonization laws were enacted barring former colonial citizens (colored ones, primarily) from emigrating to Great Britain.

Britain had slaves in its colonies; the United States had slaves at home. These two systems breed entirely different mentalities, which cannot effectively be compared.

I say this because it seems that you're implying that other countries don't have the same race problems that the U.S. does as a result of some inherent failing in American citizens. I'll admit that other countries don't have the same problems, but that's because they evolved under a different set of circumstances, not because their denizens have some unimpeachable sense of morality.

In short, slavery at home breeds a different kind of racism than slavery abroad. European ideas of racism are different, but no less intense, than American. Social Darwinism didn't spring up solely on this side of the pond.