I dont see the big deal with racism myself. Sure, its not a quality that I would consider a PLUS, thats for sure, but I can understand where it comes from. As long as someones racism isnt acted upon through force or harm to the person, its just an opinion about a particular race.
My grandmother is a good example of this. She doesn't like black people one bit. Is it because shes evil? No, its cuz shes old as fuck and thats how people were when she was growing up. She says things like "well, you can take the nigger out of the ghetto, but you cant take the ghetto out of the nigger" when she sees something about Obama or Tiger Woods on tv. I just kinda look at her and shake my head and let it go because I know that if a black person was lying bleeding on her doorstep, she would call an ambulance and try and help them when it came right down to it. I'm not saying its a good way to be, she just grew up thinking that way about blacks. It doesn't make someone evil just because they take a particular view on someone based on their race. Maybe a little ignorant, but surely not evil.
Ask yourself this.......
Would you rather associate with a person that just happens to dislike a particular race, yet does nothing harmful to people of that race and just chooses not to associate with those people, or would you rather associate with someone who claims to not be a racist, yet likes the idea of taking your money (taxes) away from you to give it to someone else and using the force of law to prevent you from doing something that isnt harming anyone(drugs, porn, etc)?
I'll hang out with the racist any day because its just a personal opinion they hold that does no harm to anyone. Seems to me that people who go out of their way to make a huge deal out of racism are people that are trying to show how "fair" they are, as if to say "HAH!! Look at me........ I'm up here........ you're down there"
At one time in the past, I really disliked middle eastern people because they're always trying to screw you in business exchanges. I still believe this, but I understand its not their race that is the cause of this. It is the environment they grew up in. Nowadays I tend to give the individual a fair shake without making a judgement on them before I know them. Did that make me EVIL.......... fuck no it didnt. I just lumped all people of that race together, which might not have been the most fair thing to do, but there are many things I can think of that are far worse than being a racist.