Although the direct discrimination to blacks during the Jim Crow period has disappeared,a new pattern of racism, i.e. laissez-faire racism,has been strengthening in the post civil-rights era.

• 过去那种赤裸裸的吉姆·克劳种族主义已经不多见,另一种新形式的消极的放任无为的种族主义在后民权时代出现,并不断加强。