Racism I’m thinking just down off the cuff (so don’t hold me to it) May kind of be like dialects in America. We are subtly conditioned by the variant of American English we speak growing up, leading to different accents. In America there are about 11 regional dialects, although their strength may be waning slightly. This type of accent conditioning largely happened on the unconscious levels.

I’m not saying any racism is similar, only that it presents itself in different ways. I’m from the Northeast, specially outside New England, on the Niagara river next to the Falls on the boarder of Canada. It is a heavily white poor European area. The northeast was structured in racism geographically after the civil war by “forcing” black American immigrants into inner cities by the creation of sundown towns and white counties that “focused” black American migrants from the South to settle, in one concentrated place. Thus, interactions were low before that point in the late 1800s, and the density of black Americans were low, in the low single digits as far as percentage.

I grew up with idealistic parents, but in a blue collar first, and then a white collar town, and was lucky enough to have open minded liberal professors. In many ways I was “blind” to racism around me since there were few uncounted. Only now, for instance, I’ve discovered that overall support, or approval ratings, of Matin Luther King when he was alive was 20 to 25 percent of whites. I was shocked. I had thought everyone loved him like my parents did. I was simply unaware of the opinions of others around me because they didn’t much express it openly. The “uneducated factory workers” and their kids did express it somethings in the blue collar town by occasional slurs, but these were abstract and result from stereotypes, not on daily interactions. So there wasn’t a lot of depth to them.
The white collar town I moved to for high school didn’t vocalize any racism, so there really ain’t much discussion. We read a few books written by black American authors. That doesn’t mean racism wasn’t present, only that it was more structurally formed, through geographical formation of the inner city. Hence, where I’m from, Buffalo, the black Americans are concentrated in that parity of the city the supremacist entered and shot up the Tops grocery store two months ago.
My point is that the racist conditioning must be confronted, but can more easily be changed and accepted when the structural elements are subtlety adjusted or openly adjusted.

There’s been some progress as more black families haves have into the white collar suburb, and even the blue collar town on the Niagara where they just elected their first gay mayor and open a vegan health food store. (When I was our family was only vegetarians in the town full of meat and potatoes.)
But I moved to the South, where the whites and black Americas are somewhat more mixed. The South has a much higher density of black Americans and before the civil war was about 90 percent in 1800. Thus, whites were more prone to anger, and I felt more threatened by whites and more at ease with black Americans in the South, who were all nice to me. I think that type of racism is harder to change as it involves not just structural changes to mortgages and school funding, for example, but re-conditioning of the violent underlying psyches of whites. I give blacks in the South a much easy time of “adjusting” to the future then Southern whites, as high education and chances at jobs will help them. Just my take.