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I don't really see this, in my area at least. Other people's experience will vary. I notice my white and black clasmates get along very well. Hate is not born, it's taught. I think this "divide" is more in rural areas. I'm in Philly and it's a very diverse city, racism between white and black kids are almost non-existent (or at least I never witnessed any actual racism between white kids and black kids beyond the kids being "edgy" with their "dark humor"). I mean like, I never heard a white kid said the N word with the hard R.
I did, however, notice a lot of kids making racist "jokes" against me (For context: I was born in PRC, and immigrated to the US). Like white kids and black kids would both make jokes like "Chinese language probably sounds like 'Chng Chng'" and then they both laugh at the "joke" I'm just like wtf dude. Luckily, as you go up higher in the grade level, the less racist people seem to be.
For context, my high school was like (approximately): 30% White, 20% Black, maybe like 15% Latino, 30% Asian.
Now, the school was very shitty, there were bullying everywhere. But bullying usually wasn't based on race.
And despite the racism that I personally have faced, I do have some Chinese-American classmates who were born here in the US, and they seem to get along with everyone else well, so I'm guessing I'm just not "Americanized" enough and its more like Xenophobia more than Racism/Sinopobia. I'm don't use an "American" name so I guess that's is one of the major reasons why I get targed for racism but others who look just like me don't get targeted.
Now, to be clear, that's not to say there aren't racism between white people and black people. I'm not downplaying racism, I'm just saying I'm lucky to live in a place where the racism is very minimal. There are probably some racists in certain neighborhoods in Philly. I did see some trump flags when traveling around the city, so those people definitely exist. But my point is that its so rare and so socially unacceptable (at least in my city) that I'm having a hard time recalling when I personally witnessed any serious (as in a non-joke) racism between white people and black people happened (I mean, other than on those on the news).
But, outside of my city, especially the rural areas... I don't have first hand experience, but those are probably not somewhere a racial minority would want to go to. And I personally would NEVER go to any republican dominated area.
This is sort of what I saw in California - where I'm from, Hispanic people were "the white people", and people descended from Africans were "the black people" and I wasn't aware of any sort of prejudice against Asians, they got lumped under the big umbrella of "white" . But when I was in California it was more like black and white guys considered themselves Americans, all one thing, and discriminated against Mexicans and Asians.
It's all made up, to keep people divided. Not to say there are no historical reasons reverberating still - institutional wealth comes from the past and slavery, so descendents of slaves have legitimate grievance- but the categories/rules of in groups and out groups and who is discriminated against are not the same all over the US.