Hey, we aren't hero's anymore?

Patience brother, patience. The pendulum swings one way and then the other. It just takes a long time to change and getting angry doesn't make it go faster.

 

Racist? You want to see a racist you should have met my former father in law. He's dead now but we keep checking on him. Just in case. He was meaner than a snake and if he could find a way to come back, he would.
He was full blood Chinese but born in this country of Cantonese parents. He would not allow English to be spoken in his house although he himself spoke perfect English with no accent.
He owned a lot of property and many businesses but very seldom would he deal directly with a person of European ancestry. He'd send his subordinates to do whatever was required but he would not address anyone but a fellow Chinese unless he absolutely had to. He belonged to a Tong but refused to be a member of Elks, Moose, Kiwanis, or any other service organization.
Despite all this he became quite wealthy.
Imagine his dismay when his oldest daughter fell in love with and married a man who was one half American Indian, one quarter African American, and one quarter Irish. I don't know for sure because he never talked to me, not one word all his life, but I think the Irish blood bothered him more than the other two. It was understood that a marriage would be arranged by her father to someone of his choosing. Someone Chinese. He was beyond furious.
He cut off all contact with his daughter and refused to allow her to visit her mother or sisters in his home. He refused to attend any of her school graduations, even medical school when she got her MD.
He would not acknowledge his grandchildren in any way. They weren't pure Chinese and to him that was anathema.
For the rest of his life, and he lived to be very old, he never mentioned his daughter's name, the names our children, or spared them so much as a kind word.
He never had a European in his house. He never went to the house of a non Chinese. Those who spoke badly of him, and there were many, waited to do so until after they were sure he was dead.
So, some people hate other people for no good reason and people call them racist. My former father in law hated everything that was not under his control. He hated everything that was not himself. Mostly, he just hated.
Racist doesn't quite describe whatever he was.