Everyone knows racism. Why do we tolerate it?

For me it started with my mother. She grew up in New Orleans and couldn't imagine why the races would want to mix. At the time there were laws against racial mixing. It was called miscegenation. She was a person not a racist.

Her experience remains part of my earliest conditioning.

I went to school and I really learned about racism. School...learning, that's good. You learn from the kids. They learn from their parents. This learning was not good.

They were bad.
We were good.

That's what I learned in school. Let's fight. That's what we did.

Time for college...forget all that bad stuff. Learn from the Professors. Enlightenment. Everyone is good. Cherish the differences. Graduate.

Back to the real world. You are a citizen now. Crime is up. Schools are bad. Government sucks. Dog eat dog. Get a job. Got one, good one.

Get married. Have a family. Got one, good one. Now what?

Hang tight, make money, raise kids. Teach them right.

But they go to school too. And they talk to my mother.

Maybe when their kids talk to my wife it will be different. She went to college.

I am black / white could you tell?