You have no idea how prophetic your post was and is.
I had this very discussion with my lady friend, and one of her group said ONLY...only... white people can be racist.
That got a huge eye roll for almost everyone present. (8 people).
Where they all white?
If you could understand the difference between the majority race being prejudiced based on race, vs a minority race attacking-back with race-based insults against the majority, maybe you'd stop rolling your eyes.
In the public arena, where people don't think, yeah, they roll their eyes because they are ignorant. Here though, you have a choice to learn. Or remain ignorant, your call.
Here's what's going on.
There is still large swathes of the American population who are racist in one significant form or another.
There are lots of organizations and efforts to keep awareness of the issue up, so that it can continue to be addressed and discussed.
Right wing strategists have seized on this, and they hunt for examples of whites being called racists, and they fan the flames. They did this to the degree that it's a primary anti-Democrat talking point...Democrats just call you racists.
Obama called you racists. etc.
They also intentionally use dog-whistles, like the hanging comment, ape, monkey, etc., and they do it for two reasons. To signal to their base without saying "nigger" directly, and they do it to further enrage people who call out such racism, which is a self-reinforcing cycle. They cry racist, and the right points to that again as "see they think we're all racists!".
So are you playing into that, or were you really shocked to see a ****ing racist sign driving down the highway? You do know David Duke was elected to the House not that long ago right? Have you ever been down south...deep south?
You think Caravans/immigrant/muslim outcry was about taxes and not some healthy dose of racism threaded through there?