I actually disagree here. I grew up in the DEEP south during the 60's. We were RAISED to not be tolerant of black people, and were taught that they were less of a race. That is just reality. One of the neatest things in my life was the process finding out that this was not true. What your parents and friends taught you just was not true, but taught to you out of fear of the unknown. Then you play sports and start developing friends of different colors, and your own brain starts to question what you were taught. As you grow older, those players you grew up with you realize they are every bit as good of a person as anyone you know. It is confusing at first, then one day the light bulb goes off that you just grew up in a bad time, and a place that had not yet developed culturally. I have been hiring people for over 3 decades. I care ZERO as to their gender or race. I have been told to hire a spanish speaking person and that kind of bothers me. I hire people ONLY because I feel that they can 1. do the job. 2. Fit in with my team. 3. professionally carry on our culture as a top business in our area. Beyond that...the other stuff just does not matter to me. The only person on this entire planet that has to be good with how I view this now, and how I viewed it back when I was young is ME. I did the right thing when I learned that what I...and almost everyone else was taught around me was really wrong. I would say since I have lived in this town for 6 decades and still have many of those friends from the 60's and 70's that 95% of us feel like I do now. We were not irredeemable. And I cannot blame a child for being racist when that was the world they lived in at the time. If you STILL harbor those feelings, that is an entirely different story.
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