Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.