Racism: Who is really keeping all this going?

Who is really keeping racism going?

I don't know if any of you feel the way I do, I hope so.  The current situation in this country is deplorable regarding many issues but one in specific just puts a burr under my saddle.  It makes me nuts and raises many quesitons we should ALL be thinking about and fighting against.
Racism in this country...
I am a WASP.  White Anglo Saxon Protestant.  Am I ashamed of that?  No, I am not.  I am proud of my heritage for in my blood line is John Adams and Sam Houston.  Each fought for this country's freedom and the freedom from the tyrrany of Mexico.  Along with many relatives who have answered the call to action to defend this great nation who in their own right did as much as the above men.  I come from a long line of patriots and I am a patriot as are my children.
Being raised in the great state of Texas, we did'nt really look at race as have others.  Segregation I never understood but in this state my family disdained this institution and won out before the nation did.  Yes we all noted the difference in color and status, but never in my memory did we treat others with elitist or superior attitudes.  My family treated everyone equally and that is the way I grew up.  As we started to go overseas to third world countries for drilling contracts, I learned a new appreciation for people of different cultures and religions.  They generally treated us with respect and did we them.
I in no way downplay the civil rights movement in the sixties which i witnessed first hand.  This was a great moment in American history.  Dr. King achieved many things but this was his greatest work and rectified a major wrong this country had perpetrated against a race of people.  Yes as Americans, we need to look at this as a mistake made from the last remnants of our British heritage in part.
I enlisted 4 April 1968.  The day Dr. King was assassinated.  Most of us were shocked and sickened.  A few rejoiced, and a few promised race war.  I will never forget that day, not only for that but for the oath I swore to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegience to the same.  I have never read in the constitution where there is any reference to race creed or color.  I swore to protect us as Americans one and all.

Now I went through the racial violence of Watts, the riots and the black panthers.  I saw racial violence when I got back to Okinawa after a year in Vietnam.  During that year my Marines protected each other as I did them.  The only color we saw was O.D. green.  So we were confused when we got back and many of us denounced racially motivated gatherings and segregation happening there. 

What I have seen since is the self segregating actions by many people.  Calling themselves black and now the buzz word is African Americans.  I totally dis agree with this epithet on the grounds that it continues to segregate those who use it.  Woodrow Wilson is the one who started the segregation in the military and supported segregation in public.  My question here and food for thought comes from a recent video of an interview by Wolf Blitzer of CNN with Michael Steele chairman of the Republican National Committee.  Blitzer all but accused the Republican party of discrimination.  He cited a sign held by a Tea Partier of Obama as a witch doctor over Obamacare.  Mr. Steele should be commended for his demeanor,  composure and thinking in the obvious and makine Mr. Blitzer look like he was inciting and inflaming racial issue.  To discredit Tea Partiers and the RNC.  Mr. Steele slam dunked him big time!!!  As rightfully he should have.  So we see another attempt by the "lame stream media" to keep race in the forefront.  We also have seen since Lord Obama has taken office, that if any one of us dis agree with him or his policies, that same media and progressive politicians, we are accused of being racists.  So who is really at the bottom of this?

We are ALL Americans, white black brown or yellow.  Why do some continue to claim other nationalities and try to combine them with being American.?  I don't understand this concept.  I don't use it and my family and friends don't use it.  Why?  Because WE are AMERICANS!