We were, we are and we will always be a racist country with less bigotry in our future.

[MyUncle]

4. Your answer is exactly what I'm trying to define.

I'm over 55, racist did not used to mean a hater. That was bigots. Racist has replaced that word to be something that means you hate people because of race, gender, religion, etc.

I've been around long enough to know that white people from the North Shore of Oahu are different than black people from Brooklyn. It's a combination of race, geography, economics, culture, heck even weather.

I don't hate, so I'm not interested in places or people that do. I just wish there was a word /way for us to all get along, while acknowledging our differences.

You thinking I'm a hater because I said I believed races (and other things) are different (a racist) is the perfect example of why I don't like that word.