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"Yeah, we probably all have biases, but if we hate those biases, know they are wrong, we are more than likely to overcome them when we have choices we consciously make."

In addition to your comments, we all have biases.

After years of working in major corporations and being a part of social clubs and groups, one of the most glaring things I have noticed is that the blacks always seem to congregate together. At company picnics, ball games, or even the lunch room, black have more of a propensity to stay to themselves than whites.

Waiting in line at Wal-Mart, or the grocery store even shows some of the prejudice; the black customers in front of me in the line, are always greeted by the black cashier with smiles and conversation, but as soon as the white person steps up, most of the time the smile disappears and a militance takes over, displaying the checker's obvious contempt for a person of the caucasion race. No amount of trying to be friendly will crack the mold...happens 90% of the time.

So,the bias is there, and we have now been enlightened by the "reverend" wright's sermons and church of an abiding hatred for whites, by blacks, in America. Whites are disparaged at every turn, and with race baiters like wright, obama, ferrakhan, jackson, and sharpton at the helm with a never-ending teaching of this hatred from birth to grave, it's little wonder.

On the other hand, whites are blasphemed with any mention of most anything about blacks. We are supposed to forgive their crimes, forgive their anger, and give them anything they want, all in deference happenings over 200 years ago, over which no currently living person either experienced, or caused.

But, back to biases...let's consider one of the left's most popular religions (next to global warming, that is), evolution.

Now, if evolution is the left's overwhelming choice for a god, then I'm guessing the preference of redbirds to redbirds, and honeybees to honeybees is an evolutionary form of discrimination and prejudice. Bears not hanging out with horses is racism. Animals hanging with their own is OK, but humans - and humans just being one chromosone from the animal world (as the evolutionaries put it) are supposed to diss their own kind.

I go back to a common theme I use, no matter what the politically correct and liberal rhetoric try to dictate, there is always the one thing called "human nature".

Just as in the case of co-workers and check-out clerks, if the hatred is "built in", there is nothing any advocacy group can do to change it...the laws may make us all go through the motions, but until the actual hearts and minds change, we're right back where we started.

Get the government and the race-baiters out of the mix, and things will probably calm down and we could eventually co-exist without animosity and turmoil.

“...the black customers in front of me in the line, are always greeted by the black cashier with smiles and conversation, but as soon as the white person steps up, most of the time the smile disappears and a militance takes over, displaying the checker’s obvious contempt for a person of the caucasion race.”...

I have also noticed this happening to me all the time at the grocery store I go to. Black customers are treated like a close friend. White customers are the strangest stranger and a borderline inconvenience. There are exceptions, and in my experience they are older black ladies that tend to be pleasant, but anyone else, just as you have described.

>>the black customers...are always greeted by the black cashier with smiles and conversation, but as soon as the white person steps up,...the smile disappears...and a militance [sic] takes over, displaying...obvious contempt for a person of the caucasion [sic] race. No amount of trying to be friendly will crack the mold...

Let me suggest what may be happening: Blacks are so used to being ignored by whites that they wait for you to make the first move. As an airline pilot (30+ years), I always tried to say goodbye to my passengers. I could count on one hand the times I was ignored or stared at contemptuously by blacks.

If that sort of thing does happen to me when I’m the customer, I confront it directly by asking to speak to the manager, keeping race out of it, and telling both the manager and the cashier that I expect to be treated politely in any place I spent my $$. You initiate the conversation - start out with a smile on your face and being chatty; if you don’t get the same, raise hell. Stealing, and rudeness to the customers is an easy way to get fired in any business.

BTW, Cubans in Miami (no, I didn’t say “Latins”) are notorious for their rudeness to Gringos. I have no problem confronting them, either.