JENA 6

So why do I walk in this morning to my office and find three co-workers discussing some issue and they stopped talking as soon as I walked in? They are all older white people. Well lo and behold, as I walked to my office I heard them finishing up talking about the JENA 6 march. Of course they wouldn't talk to me about that issue b/c I guess I'm a little too liberal for them. Liberal or openminded?
I know that it's been over forty years since the civil rights marches of the sixties but lots of people especially in the Metro New Orleans area still have some racist views. It's not blatant but it's there. I had a tub refinisher at my house one day and he decided to start talking smack about black people. Just because I'm Latina or other than white(that's what my license choice was when I moved to La.) doesn't mean that I'm going to sit around and let you spout racist remarks. Needless to say I cut him off. I would have thrown him out I didn't b/c like every other self-centered American I thought "who will finish my tub". I know some people don't think they are racist but they just don't realize their statements say something else. Ignorance is hard to conquer. I think this is an issue that happens all over the US not just in La. We might not have segregation but racism still lives just in different forms. Ok, that's as serious as I'm going to get.