How deep can racism go in a person?

RELIGION

Have family (uncle/aunt/cousins) who are devout in their religion who are also devout in the racist arts. Good people but grew up in a time and place that put this ‘hatred’ deep in them. Maybe hatred is too strong. Definitely something that should not reconcile with their religious beliefs but has been reconciled. In their case, racism is pretty deep…in range of religious beliefs. So much for all going to same heaven I suppose


SPORTS

Have other people in my life who are self proclaimed racists, less devout in religion, and love sports. They will occasionally demonstrated what they self proclaim yet, while watching or attending a sporting event, it’s as if racism does not exist. In this case, their team loyalty and competitiveness seems to be stronger than their racism.

FOOD

Have recently gone to two favorite and popular restaurants, one in Baton Rouge and other in Metairie. Have been going to both for over 30-years. Have noticed, of recent, a very large mix of black people eating in these restaurants, upwards of 75% of tables most of the time. This was not always the case. Got me to thinking, how much of this shift is due to racist whites electing not to go to these 2 restaurants. Got strong sense that this is the case. These are really good restaurants that most people like. Yet this race mix shift happened. The unspoken seems to be screaming will give up great food but not give up racism.

CONCLUSION

Competitiveness > Racism > Religion > Food

This is social science doing work! Kidding. Meaningful or meaningless, these are my (admittedly limited) but evident observations over time.

One God, love of football and food…should be union of people. But I am naive that way.