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You're white, right?
Indeed, though during my travels of the south(I've been to Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi.. though the latter two were brief visits) I saw racism *once*. I would not presume to know a whole shitload of what it's like to be black in the south, but I do feel that it's not quite "OMG THIS IS AWFUL". No question there is much more work to be done, but it's not exactly a complete hellhole either especially compared to anything 60's-70's and prior.
And my personal belief stands that good, honest people can still be racists. There really aren't many excuses to be a racist in this day in age, but I would keep "growing up with racist bigotted parents, other adults in influential positions, and peers" as something that is pretty damned hard to contend with. It's not really an excuse, but I can't imagine it is easy to overcome.
Time goes on, and racism dilutes itself in a relative sea of more open-minded(racially, at least) people from generation to generation. Problem is when someone is raised in a situation where it is consistently banged into their head from birth. Not impossible to overcome, but I find it hard to label people as truly bad based on that alone.
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Don't you be hatin on Kansas biatch!
Heheh, I probably shouldn't. Some definite bias on my part... I mean, I look at that electoral map and shake my head. Whatever happened to the Kansas creationism in the schools thing? =D
