And so happy that you got through it and kept after your dreams, congratulations.

I hope your career is fulfilling and you continue on and prosper.

Thank you.

It is the whitest and most racist city in USA. Who would have thunk?

They officially did not let black people live there for a very long time.

as it does not make a scene. It is the subtle form, the one that seems to naturally think the worst that often is the cruelest. She is in possession of a degree of courage that not many are capable of fully understanding. She has my utmost respect.

...them. I am just outraged at such ignorance. Doing my deep breathing to keep from puking at such hatred.

Thanks for posting this article.

my sister did. In 1997, she was in a boating accident in Michigan and was taken to a hospital in Detroit for treatment and they amputated her arm. She was drugged up on morphine the whole time and she was belligerent to the nurses or doctors. She screamed at one nurse (my Mother saw this) and she said, I don't want that N* bitch touching me. I lived in Arizona so I couldn't visit for a few weeks.

My sister and I haven't spoken in nearly 5 years and unfortunately, I ran into her in town last year on a visit back to see my Mother. I hate my sister for many reasons but her racism is one I cannot understand or tolerate. I can't believe we came from the same womb.

how does your mother react to her behavior ( I'm curious , if you don't want to share that's okay as well)

My mother and I are strong liberals. She accepted my spouse who is an Indian (Asian) without any issues. She loves him as much as I do. well, you know, almost as much. My mother grew up in the south as a child of a share cropper. She worked right along blacks in the fields. She doesn't have a racist bone in her body. My sister didn't learn that from family, she learned it from red neck Hoosiers in Indiana.

.....that always seemed that way from far away too.

From the grotesque display at Charlottesville to the sneaky and sublime we all see and choose to ignore.

I have often said, "Don't argue with idiots". I believe this may be a cowardly and enabling view of confronting racism.

I see racism in my Texas town often. I asked a 70-year-old neighbor his opinion of Obama. He said, "I just think they should stay on their own side of the tracks". I did not believe it was worth confronting him. 70 years old and a set in his ways, a bigot. I do not believe he is a hater. He is ignorant.

But he is a mild form of racism I encounter in North Texas. It is overwhelming. I believe I am wrong about not arguing with them. It must be confronted, exposed, and debunked with great vigor.

Racism is taught in schools, churches, family. It is tolerated in almost all social situations.

If we tolerate it, we are complicit. I am complicit and my beliefs about ignoring it were wrong. I am a 60-year-old white man. I have always known how prevalent racism is. I truly regret the times when I have not confronted it as vigorously as it deserved.

I am just so overwhelmed by it. And I am not the target of it.

I'm sure others have too. Thanks for writing.