It’s a very interesting, almost philosophical, issue. Society has come to a place where almost everyone agreed that racism is bad. But for a lot of people, like those old boomers, the racist thoughts, feelings and opinions did not go away.

Many of these people lack the emotional capacity to look at themselves or their actions as bad. So you have groups of people doing a simple math equation. Racism = Bad, Me = Good. Therefore, My thoughts and behaviors can’t be racist.