Are we on the Verge of a Race War?

No, I don't think so. If Trump gets into power, the divide between left and right will widen, but that's about it.

No. That's what concerned citizen thinks. I think it's nonsense. A race war is a figment of the far right's imagination.

Its kind of hard to believe that only 35 years ago South Africa was a nation divided by segregation based upon your colour and race, and its a sobering thought that within my lifetime the so called "Land of the Free" ( The United Stated of America ) also operated a system of segregation based on colour.

Things were not quite that bad here, but they were bad enough

Yes things are much better today, the situation has improved immensely, but not only are some black and minority groups still in a disadvantaged situation because of what they / we have inherited from those bad days, but also the racism has not completely gone away.

The biggest issue today is what we saw in August, anti Islam and Islamaphobia sentiments, and hostility towards immigrants including false / fake news, as we all saw.

There you go with your racist 'anti-white filter' again. 

Some people dont understand how the legacy of widespread and legal racism affects some people today.

In the 1950s, 1960s and in the 1970s it was common practice to discriminate against black and Asian people, turn them down at every job interview, or give them the jobs that no one else wanted, overlook them for promotion. The Bristol Bus Boycott is a good example of what I mean, where the bus company operated an open policy for all to see of not employing black people.

Most black people in those days were poor or lived in poverty because of widespread discrimination, and that is an indisputable fact, its accepted history.

Once people are in such a situation, its difficult to get out of, a low income job, living in rented accommodation because you cannot aford a mortgage, run down areas, poor schools, poor diets, it also happens to many white working class people, but NOT because they are white, or because of discrimination, but because they just found themselves in such a place by fate, by chance.

Once you are in such a position, its difficult to climb out of, it affects your children, they end up the same unless they think of ways out, trying to better educate themselves, aiming for University, rather than the dead end life doing what their parents did.

Today is much, much better for black people, we do not see the levels of discrimination that we used to, but the point is that there was no [RESET] ... society was not reformatted.