It's really not much different for Uber: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-31/study-fin...

<quote>You know the rest of the world isn't as racist as the USA</quote> Unless perhaps, you are a Turk in Germany or a Roma just about anywhere in Europe.

A reasonable point. I'd say the US is worse in absolute terms (simply on account of a much larger number of number of fatal shootings and the like), but whether that means it's more racist or similarly so and just more violent in general is tricky to analyze. It's unfortunate that we find ourselves having to make such comparisons at all :-(

Everywhere in the 60s or everywhere in pre-Uber XXI century? Honest question; I was under the impression that most of the racism problems in the US have been solved before I was born.

Racism in the US is not currently solved, so your impression is incorrect. Slavery is gone, and legal segregation is gone, but racism is still alive and well.

While the other comment is particularly snarky, and while modern day racism is less overt than activities like lynching, it still exists.

As an easy example from recent news, a Texas judge posting on facebook that it was "time for a tree and a rope" (which is an implied lynching)[0].

[0] - http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local-govt--politics/judge-m...

It's still a big problem. https://medium.com/matter/ubering-while-black-146db581b9db

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/digital-discrimination-the-case-of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#Current_issues