Removed because people are such snowflakes

Racism is normal to an extent. We are social animals and have the capacity to care for those within our "group" (which is complex in civilized society) and to be wary of the other, those who are different. For example I was raised in a predominately blue collar Irish American community and there were very clear lines between "us" and "them". Us were family, church, school, and community in roughly that order; they were overwhelmly white protestant, mostly Irish, German, French and English (usually mixed). The Other were everyone else. To a person raised in a more cosmopolitan community, like where I now live, "us" includes multiple races. Both my kids have diverse friend groups that include Africans, Indians, Asians, African Americans, and Asian Americans. The worst racism is institutionalized racism that disadvantages groups of people, that is where the focus needs to be. We will never eliminate individual racism because millions of years of evolution have taught us to prefer those most like ourselves. My dog loves us, she loves other dogs, but she visibly becomes more excited around other yellow labs, labs in other colors, and yellow medium dogs in that order.