I have met countless people who have moved to Denver, or even people who have lived in Denver for years and were generally white Americans, who have told me that racism was dead and no longer the case. alive. But that wasn't the case. Just because racism didn't seem to affect this individual because of their place in the hierarchy doesn't mean it didn't exist. If racism did not exist, the Mizzou incident would never have happened or even on other campuses. If racism didn't exist, we wouldn't have countless stories of people targeted because of the color of their skin circulating on the web and in our neighborhoods.