Sorry for the late reply, I was out of town.
BS! In this day and age, it comes up if you work/live with other races. The last three years of my career, I was partnered with a black man. We were together 9-12 hrs. a day. We spent more waking hours together than he did with his wife. It was discussed. If that makes me a racist, FINE! I DON'T GIVE A DAMN! I refuse to be cowed or be bothered by that appellation whether from someone I know, or from a bunch of pixels on my monitor. If you want to call me a racist, or infer such as you did in your post, my answer is...SO WHAT!
Forgive me, may I have the opportunity to rephrase this?
Perhaps it was a poor choice of words by using the word “discuss”
I agree civil and open dialogue is important.
Name calling (such as the word “coward”) does nothing but divide rather than help us reach any real understanding.
I too have worked with, worked for, and supervised many different races of people in the last 30 years and the subject has indeed been discussed. For a period of 3 years, I drove to and from work a neigbhor of mine who was of African heritage (or “black” if you prefer) and we talked about racial issues quite often.
Shall I say (and you might agree) “ If you are not a racist, you would not readily accuse others of racism?”,which is what I believe the AG is doing.
I believe also that there is a certain part of political society which will keep the discussion of racial inequality (sometimes where none really exist) out there for political gain, again, this is what I think the AG was doing. Others do this, such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al.
Having said all of this, this is the 21st century and a time must come where actions (like electing a President of African heritage) should outweigh all talk, which is truly the crux of my statement.
As you say, “In this day and age, it comes up if you live/work with other races.”
My opinion is that it should come up less and less, then the only people bringing it up will be the racist.
No offense intended.