this has turned out to be an interesting discussion on racism, it has made me review my non-jw upbringing in an italian neighborhood (i not being italian just some germanic mix) in a low income welcome back kotter type city in new jersey in the 50's/60's.
I never saw the kind of racism that existed in the south everybody in woolworths ate together at the lunch counters and used the same restrooms and swam at the beach. However, life was not w/o conversations about racism but the impressions I got were that you needed to be careful around blacks and puerto ricans because they were dangerous and if they thought you were looking at them in the wrong way theywould beat you up or worse. so I learned to be careful and be a little afraid because I was white. Sort of strange isn't it.