I want to inject a little honesty here about racism.
I am one of those dreaded boomers. Sixty-nine years of age and Caucasian. I grew up in the mid-west. Here is the truth. Very few white people my age were not raised racist. My grandparents were racist, so was my father, my mother I'm not sure about, certainly less so. I had to learn not to be reflexively racist, homophobic and sexist, among other life lessons-like never trust a Republican. That took most of my adult life and didn't start until college. Up until then I had never met a Jewish person or had a conversation with a black person. Mexicans lived in Mexico except for a tiny enclave. Asians were a rarity. If you were raised in those days better than I was, your family and community should be complemented.
I can understand how people never unlearned what they had been brought up with. Especially with help from their church, the right wing media and the boys at the bar, factory, gun club. It sucks, but that's the way things are. It is hard to educate people who half the time can't even find their glasses without a whole house search. Maybe we will die off without destroying the planet.
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...question your statement that most boomers were "raised racist." My parents, who in later years I discovered did harbor some racist beliefs, raised us not to be racists or anti-semitic, and they really believed in equality between the races. My mother privately tutored young African-American kids in a rural Virginia community in 1961 and 1962 to bring them up to speed for school when they moved to our town. Old geezers on their front porches called out "your mother's a n*r-lover as we walked to school in the morning. didn't bother us because they were so obviously out of it. The race riots during the 60s and 70s scared them senseless, and they retreated into a default position of a fairly "mild" form of racism. They worked with and liked the African-Americans in their community, but were avid Fox News watchers and became increasingly right wing and conservative as they aged.
But my sisters and I benefited from the idealism of their youth and were consciously raised not to be racist or anti-semitic. Both my parents explained to us about prejudice against blacks and Jewish people, and told us in no uncertain terms it was very wrong. I've met some racist boomers in the north and the south, but the vast majority of the boomers I've met were not raised racist. That's my two cents. 
