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"I hate to admit it, but I have reached a stage in my life that if I am walking down a dark street late at night and I see that the person behind me is white, I subconsciously feel relieved." -- Reverend Jesse Jackson
Slavery and racism have been like a soiled garment that America has diligently and at great expense tried to wipe clean. President Obama acknowledged at his news conference last week that America has made "great progress" in the direction of racial reconciliation and he is living proof of that.
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Hating someone because of their race but not also thinking all blacks were inferior would then not make you a racist, it would make you a bigot though.
Not hating someone, but still thinking they belonged to an inferior race (Lincoln for example) would.