What's in the middle

  "The Illusion of Immunity: Why Being in an Interracial Relationship Doesn't Eliminate Racism" I've always encountered the rhetoric that one can't be racist if they have a black neighbour, Indian friends, or have dated a Persian. If I had a penny for every time I've heard someone say, "How can I be racist? I have a Pakistani friend," I'd be a millionaire. This belief was something I passively accepted, not fully understanding its flaws, until recently when a public figure whom we as a nation look up to was criticized despite having an Indian wife. The argument was that his marriage somehow absolved him of any racist attitudes, but that simply isn't true. I used to have a Swiss friend who, despite being married twice to white Americans and then to a Filipina after those marriages failed, was one of the most racist people I knew. Ironically, he had a Swiss accent and called everyone here "foreigners." He married a woman from the Phil