Might as well ask what an arsonist looks like, what’s a burglar’s political lean, do rapists like owning pets, what kind of car do murderers drive. Being simply a human condition, the answers are all across the human spectrum, and taking on many shades of personal misery.

Being light-skinned and married many wonderful years to a dark woman of Jamaican descent, I could spot them, but only when I was with her, and particularly when I held her hand. On my own, I hadn’t a clue, which was occasionally heartbreaking when a friend met my wife and the racist was revealed. To clarify a bit, I could sometimes see it in other races, but not with the Red Man, and not the White Eyes. Funny that. I may be blind to those, but they flare out when a mixed marriage is found.

It seems my experience that most racists simply need a bit of educating, but we must bear in mind the dark, sinister seed that's been growing throughout their childhood is wired into their thinking, and so remains. There is no way to completely abolish it.

Like hard drugs and hard drinking, there is really no clear cure to the addiction. For some it lessens, where logic wins a slight foothold, but even then it remains an ongoing battle, all the way to the racist’s deathbed. Not entirely hopeless, but not always all-consuming either.

Cheers to all here.