The slightly more complicated way to look at it is that if you know someone, you know their complications, and you're slower to reach conclusions about them. Especially negative conclusions. I have a mind to go down there and sue that dude for intellectual property theft. I wasn't aware of his more outrageous statements until this article. It's scarier still that none of his fellow Republican candidates have anything to say about his pronouncements.
Fraternal loyalty can go too far.
Some view racism as any kind of racial prejudice. Others define racism as a belief that one race is inherently superior to another. That sounds about right to my lay ears. I'm going to eBay a lot of stuff over the next month. I have a smashed right rear window and dented door to get fixed, and of course body shops weren't open Sunday or Monday.