1. Of course, this depends on how you define "racist". I could not be called "racist" by any objective measure.
2. I have lived in many regions of the United States, including the Southeast, as well as abroad.
3. Yes, close black friends, and numerous ones. My best friend from Kindergarten is black (the only black kid in my class), and he still stops by my mom's house if she needs help moving anything, help cutting the grass etc. and I'd be equally willing to help his mom out as needed if I lived in the same city as his family. However, like most people, most of my friends are of my own ethnic group, as is the common preference. I have bailed my black friends out of jail when they've gotten in trouble, and they have come to pick me up in the middle of the night when I've had car trouble, etc. I have no intrinsic hatred of anyone.
4. Certainly it's possible for a black man to be smarter than a white man. No group has a monopoly on intelligence or stupidity. However, that doesn't negate the existence of group averages.
"Is" does not imply "ought." Group differences, when they exist, pertain to averages, not to individual men and women. There are geniuses and dullards, saints and sinners, in every race, ethnicity, and gender. Political equality is a commitment to universal human rights, and to policies that treat people as individuals rather than as representatives of groups; it is not an empirical claim that people are indistinguishable. Many commentators, like yourself, seem unwilling to grasp these points.
Quote from BSAM:
Artie, I got four very simple questions for you. They only require a "yes" or a "no".
1. Are you a racist?
2. Do you live in the southeast part of the United States? (If you don't want to answer this question, it is okay.)
3. Have you ever had a black friend?
4. Is it possible for a black man to be smarter than a white man?
Watch his answers, folks. This is going to be good.
Okay, Artie, skip the spin, just answer the questions. Like I said, the questions are very simple.