You have provided the best explanation of white racism that this white person has ever seen. White racism isn’t just a twisted cross or a white sheet. It is not just housing segregation, predatory lending and racist jokes. It is a set of assumptions most people don’t even understand they have made. Your exposition of the origins of your own beliefs and of how you shed them was powerful. By the way, I hope readers of this piece find their way to your post about five things people don’t know about the U.S.Navy. It dovetails nicely with this article in that it explicated how a mind can be broadened without indoctrination or guilt-tripping. I wish progressives could be made to understand that.