Yeah, that is the greatest YTMND ever with Picard.
I'm always interested in how the media handles racism, since it always has to tread a seriously conservative and politically correct line. So what do you make of this:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html
Nearly everybody is a "racist" to some degree. Our society is too fixated on the issue for it to be otherwise. We live in a time and place where the color pink--a friggin'
color--can be viewed as good or bad depending on the gender of the person expressing themselves with it. We live in a time and place where a handful of belly fat--especially on a young woman--makes a person unattractive, unhealthy, worthy of all ridicule and derision, and barely even human. We live in a time and place where you are considered to be mentally ill if you do
not believe that some religious carpenter rose from the dead two thousand years ago and ascended up out of a cave in the Middle East on his way to becoming supreme ruler of the universe.
Racism is par for the course. My advice? Try to think about it differently. Look for the day when you can be walking alone at night and have an identical reaction by crossing paths with a single white woman versus a group of black men.
If nothing else, should you be unable to control your prejudiced thinking, at least control your behaviors.