Everybody's got on the same color shoes, the same color clothes. The only difference in anybody is skin color. Smith was black. His new squad leader was white. Private Smith figured he had his answer.
Racism can be as subtle as that - or as startling as reveille at daybreak.
It can express itself through people, institutions, the laws of nations, television. In the 1960s, racism was more overt. Everyone she saw was white. There were no black dolls. There was nothing black.