I get all kinds of pissy about racism. I think it is about as idiotic and ignorant as the human race can be. And make no mistake, it exists no matter your color- it is not a white on black thing. it surrounds us.
Can you imagine how advanced our civilization might be by now had there never been racism? How many ideas were lost or ignored due to our refusal to work together?
What if a Jew had discovered the cure to cancer during WWII? Could've happened, you know, had the Germans given him a lab instead of a gas chamber.

Also, I'll stick up for my south because I always hear this when a racism argument begins. I lived in the South until I was 25 years old. I never experienced racism as the norm. None of my family or friends used the negative slang and it was common knowledge that the mexicans who came during the summers to work the fields were as hard working as any team you'd find.
But the south is reputed as racist because of it's past.
What surprised me, however, was when I moved to Wisconsin. Racism- and it's negative slang- is commonplace. People who didn't even know me would talk as if racism was just the norm.
But Wisconsin is not reputed as racist.

Interesting.