Reply #17: They still act on it, just not as badly.

[ieoeja]

I suspect lots of people don't even consciously act upon it. Something about a prospective candidate (for employment, tenant, etc) makes the interviewer feel "turned off". They can't see (or are afraid to look) that the turn off is skin color.

I get the same thing based on appearances. Though I have nothing to complain about since I have a choice in the manner. I could cut my hair and at least pretend I didn't think you were an idiot whose premature death would benefit the gene pool and help rush in a better era. I should have probably stopped that sentence several phrases earlier.

However, I run into an awful lot of overtly "racist and proud of it" types. And I keep encountering more and more of them. As a man who came of age in the 70s, it is extremely dispirting and completely baffling. I remember when my (now ex-)wife laughed down some old racist with the taunt, "Go ahead and hate us. Your kind will all grow old and die soon anyway."

It appears we laughed too soon.