South Africa has been struggling with racism for a very long time and, unfortunately, we are still at war.In the past five years I would say that, even though racism existed people weren't really talking about it as much as now. Or perhaps I should say, it wasn't something people spoke about openly.The whole issue of race was like the unwanted step child of this country. We knew it was there but we chose to turn a blind eye. Fast forward to now and nothing is ignored any more because of access to social media. Everything is put under a microscope and scrutinised.People are capitalising on social media's broad reach to voice their opinions. The stepchild has now become the spoilt brat that everybody is constantly talking about, feeding it attention.If South Africa wishes to move forward, I think that we should understand that ignoring racism on social media is not effective. We must respond to racist posts immediately and send out a clear message that hate has no place on the internet. ..