This whole post and many of the below responses are so sad and yet so indicative of what is wrong with our greater society.

I grew up in a white girl in middle class neighborhoods, but was always taught to see a person for who they were, not for what they look like. While I agree that people gravitate towards those most like them, I have always had friends of all color, sizes, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. I have never been discriminated against for being female, straight, or Christian, but I was often screamed at for being white. The hallway that lead to the theater in my high school was the hangout area for a large amount of black kids. They would holler disparaging white girl remarks, throw things at me, and generally act like racist idiots. As a teacher's assistant my Senior year I got to see two students go unreprimanded for cheating because thier mothers cried racism.

Later as a military member I have seen non-white individuals get away with being general jackassess because thier superiors are afriad of being hit with and MEO complaint.

My younger cousin dated a black boy who lived across the street from her for over a year. He was always treated with respect and welcome at family functions. The one time he took her to a family BBQ of his, none of his relatives would allow him to borrow a car to take her home because they didn't want a white girl "staining" their cars. She wanted to leave in the first place because his cousins were pretending to smell her and taunting her as being a "stanky white girl".

I went to the movies in Baltimore to see "The Pursuit of Happyness" and had to sit through audience remarks about how terrible it was that all he (the Will Smith character) cared about was acting like he was white.

I have heard songs in public places celebrating killing police and white people, calling women hos and b****s, and referring to their friends and family as the so-called N-word. There is BET, Jet, Essence, Ebony, ect. Can you IMAGINE the response if someone came out with an "Ivory" magazine?

None of this is to say that racism against black Americans no longer exists, becuase it does and will continue to as distrust of the unknown is human nature. HOWEVER it is very hard to raise my kids to be openminded and non-judgemental in a society in which racism against whites is so flagrant and so ignored. I can only hope that the example of such class acts as Barak Obama can teach that it is ok to respect yourself and get an education, and that to do so does not mean you are "acting white" but simply bettering yourself as a member of society and the HUMAN race.