Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.