When you turn personal prejudice into power, you get racism. One mistake we make is that when we bring up the topic of racism, we don't bring up power. That's where racism is played out. I think the major color line in our culture is green. If you have money, you stand a far better chance of moving into any door.
Every group is ethnocentric.
We all have to overcome the notion that everybody should dress like us, talk like us, eat like us. Affirmative action is under attack. I see more minority people represented in the middle class and above. I meet more minority people in restaurants, movies and country clubs than were there 15 years ago. Black and white teen-agers are physically within each other's presence, but they are very tense around each other.