re: Will racism ever be eradicated, in the U.S., in our lifetime?

There will always be some pockets of racism, but it's not nearly as bad as the media and some hawks would want you to think.
People make money and get attention off of keeping racism sensitivity high. It's sad really.

nope because the disenfranchised of all races use it as fuel for hate and power

There are way too many opportunities for the media and so called activists to keep racism alive and well for years to come....

if we keep fricking each other until there is only one race.

Humans are tribal by nature. Who belongs to which group changes over time and even with the context of the situation, but there will always be an us vs. them mentality as long as humans are competing with each other over resources.

That being said, my grandparents generation (born in 1910-1920) were very ethnicist. They usually weren't too pleased with their children mingling with a different flavor of Euro-American. But enough of their kids did mingle that 2 generations later that nobody cared where anyone's great grand parents came from. The same is happening with race. There's enough intermingling that in another generation or 2 there will be as much caramel and grey as brown, black and white. It's easy to hate a faceless stereotype, it's hard to hate your favorite aunt/uncle/cousin.

But don't you worry, when we get over racism, we'll find new ways to divide ourselves up. I'm betting on Enhanced vs. "Natural" humans as the next big Us vs. Them tribal battle.

No, now let's move on to things we actually can control and change in our lives.

Unless all races become one, then no it won't, and even then, there will be types of xenophobia that still remain.

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Will racism and prejudice be eradicated in the next 50 years? The next 100 years?

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Nein. Nein.

No, it's human nature to pick out differences in people be it skin color, language, weight, religion, height, etc.