Quote from traderNik:
The fact is that there are plenty of racists who believe that if you scratch a middle-class suburban black, you'll reveal a fried-chicken eating, family-abandoning, purse-snatching, street-talking negro whose teenage son is likely to revert to his genetically programmed behaviour patterns at any time. You'll find a few of these right here on ET. Maybe even right here in this thread.
Thankfully they are the minority.
Praise the lord for these small mercies bestowed upon us. I believe we as a collective group of Americans are much more sensible, flexible, broad-minded and have the capacity to espouse the good in humanity.
We are at a cross-roads in our lives and the upcoming election will shed light on how far we've evolved as a nation.