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The dying prayer of George Floyd, addressed to his police tortured, and the phrase “I can’t breathe” have become symbols of a new racial protests in America. The protests reached far beyond Minneapolis and has now been extended to a large part of the States. In he who swears by the ideals of freedom America freedom air is not enough for everyone. Death of Floyd was preceded by the death and humiliation of many members of the black minority. For the umpteenth time in American history, peaceful protests accompanied by riots and clashes with police and national guard.The interest of Russia and Russians to the topic of American racism is clear. Both Russia and America — Empire, constantly refer to the question of ethnic and cultural minorities and in their own way to solve the problem of unity in diversity. For lining the national identity and political unity in both societies, hidden deep contradictions of socio-cultural and economic nature. In Russia the issue of political unity could be solved using transitional ideology — from the Orthodox to the Communist and civilization — sometimes more, sometimes less successfully. In any Empire, the racial and ethnic question is one of the most important. Empire provides stability not only power, but also legitimacy, decentralization and the creation of channels of mobility and growth for different groups of the population. The more diverse the population, the more difficult task. The Imperial state more stable, more successful in improving the living standards of people and recognition of important values and traditions way of life.The problem is America, in historical bow class-economic and ethno-cultural inequality. Such a bow makes the division of society is inevitable and is a constant source of political tension. Not counting the largely destroyed the Indian population, the black minority were more fortunate than others. In their case, poverty was multiplied by the racial humiliation. Slavery — the underlying cause of blacks in America — the basis of their poverty, and ethnic and cultural segregation. In fact she is still alive today. Too many African-Americans continue to live in separate quarters, often on state benefits, but without the educational opportunities and economic growth. Poverty and humiliation are important causes of crime, and hence attention from the police. Even immigrants from Latin America and Asia there is the stigma that emerged against African Americans.It creates a vicious circle. The actions of the police and politicians are not able to open, and often exacerbate the problem. The suspicious attitude of the American police and African Americans is similar to the suspicion of the Russian police to “persons of Caucasian nationality”. After all, on duty, they ��asto have to deal with these groups, although they are not the majority. According to statistics, US police 2.5 times more likely to shoot blacks than whites, despite the fact that the first represent only 13% of the population. Moreover, almost half of murders in the country are committed by African Americans.Does not help to solve problems and policies. Democrats believe blacks his electorate “by definition”. Running for President Joe Biden recently said, referring to the African American, the black, if not going to vote for Biden in the election. Today African-Americans do mostly vote for Democrats, and increasingly Hispanics and Asians. However, there is no automaticity here. Trust the blacks to power remains low. Biden once again took on too much. His apology soon followed, but the precipitate, as they say, remained.Even less of the confidence of African Americans to the Republicans and President Donald Trump. The last statement in respect of the coming-of-control violent protests, that “robbery followed by a shooting” and the police should “dominate”, was perceived by many as unworthy of the President calls for renewed violence. These statements are indirectly confirmed that trump pay little attention to the issues of national minorities. In early March, 2020, only about 14% of blacks supported trump, 77% considered it racist and was quite disappointed with the overall direction of the country.But the problem of racial and economic segregation in the United States is old, and the police with trump it can not be attributed. The solution is not limited to the eradication of racism in the power structures of the state and the political class. Lack of programmes to support minorities, not to mention the norms of political correctness. Even circulating in American society, the idea of reparations “for slavery” will not be able to solve the task of full integration of the black minority. This will require strong and socially egalitarian state is able to dismantle structures of racial and economic segregation and restarted based on the idea of shared prosperity the American dream.In the absence of such a state, the reality of racial protests and violence is doomed to follow America. The system of de facto segregation will reproduce itself in the violence of the police, on the one hand, and the violent protests on the other. Among the majority of peaceful protesters is always well prepared and organized minority of the rioters provocateurs with guns and firecrackers. However, even those who have succeeded in society, as, for example, black athletes are from racial solidarity to sabotage the government, refusing to swear allegiance to the American flag. School�� will not change until the majority of blacks do not believe that it is their country that accepts, not bribes from them.Author: Andrei Tsygankov, an expert of the Valdai club, a Professor of international relations and political science at the University of California (San Francisco)