I've known a few and they can be "give you the shirt off their backs" people until you stray into the negative areas of their programming.

The presence of racist Daddy is like a dark "conscience" in their heads.

I even saw it in a liberal friend of mine who had a very racist father. His reaction to Obama was suspicion of a "black agenda", and I couldn't take it. I actually cut off contact with him for a few years.

I understand racism.....but I still don't understand why people can't get beyond it.

My own father was somewhat racist, only I never realized it while growing up. He never spoke in a racist manner, we had black friends over to our house all of the time....It only revealed itself when Obama was elected....it wasn't extreme,,,but I could see his discomfort and it surprised me.

The black man in charge is the final racial test for white people.

but I am under no illusion they not racist, and racist to the core

My friend is a big supporter of President Obama today.....

The President's performance in office showed him the foolishness of his original beliefs.

Humans believe all kinds of ridiculous things.

My personal experience was what can only be described as growing up in a religious cult. Not extreme like Rev. Moon or Jim Jones, but plenty of mind control in certain ways.

I was unable to unravel that belief system until I was about 20.

I value that experience because it gave me insight into the minds of both religious zealots and mainstream religious people.

Most importantly, comparing my mind at 20 to my mind at 24 proved to me that viewpoints are not fixed. So, I don't believe that anyone has beliefs that are permanently to their core.

for example, how hard would it be to find out that Obama REALLY was born in America? So why would people choose to believe otherwise? RACISTS!!! And I never said people could not change, just that your reasoning smacks of a serial killer crying over his bad childhood.

they try to confirm them. I just believe in cause and effect, especially with serial killers. Do you imagine that people just decide to become serial killers?

Childhood is the time when so many awful programs are embedded in our brains. Racism is one of them. Violent and abusive behavior is another. The list goes on and on.

I've given up on caring how others think or why really, but nice to know more of them are acknowledging it.
At least they respect the technology if not the people's word.

and are unfamiliar with the events in them.

But with all of the police killings of black people over the last couple of years, anyone who refuses to acknowledge that racism is still a problem in the US today is an utter moron.

In my upbringing, overt racism was socially taboo, and MLK and the other civil rights leaders were heroes that swept away the old segregation laws so that everyone could be equal.

But I also grew up in a comfortable middle class suburban environment where there were few minorities, and the ones that were around also had comfortable middle class lifestyles. It took a combination of growing up, being interested in history and politics, and city living to really be aware of how many problems minorities still face, and how many ways the deck is stacked against them with police profiling, generational poverty, substandard schools and the like. I can easily see how someone with that upbringing could be somewhat blind to racial problems, especially if they went straight back to suburban life after college.

Until we replace white supremacy with justice there will always be strife.

All my life I've had to challenge most of the whites in my life to see that racism is actually a problem.

Too many whites see the racism but refuse to see it as a problem. Now thanks to Black Lives Matter the disgusting behavior of police and citizens toward blacks is getting more sunlight. We did this dance 40-50 yrs ago too.

Personally I think it's an embarrassment that people thought they could just throw a token something at the situation and then walk away. All the problem did was fester and get worse. In my opinion, the white community has to do the job of getting the racism out of our society. I wish I could be hopeful this round of outrage will bring a sustained effort among the whites to completely end systemic racism in our culture. Unfortunately, given the history of my race, I am not hopeful. There are more of us now than there have been for a long time but I don't think there are enough of us to substantially move things for a long enough time.

I hope I'm wrong.