Thanks, but sadly I doubt that most prejudices can be overcome. Among conservatives, there is a need to exploit and perpetuate the angry white man myths in order to set the working classes against each other. Its an industry of sorts. By appealing to peoples baser instincts, you can generate cover and support for an agenda that would not be palatable otherwise.

The best way to overcome racism in America, in my opinion, is addressing economic ills. We must finish what begain in the late sixties. Lyndon Johnson had it right with the great society, but those noble efforts were undermined and cut short by the war in Vietnam and a cultural backlash that sprang up in response to general perception that lawlessness and moral decay were on the rise. Many of the ideas of the Great society were naive but failure of the war on poverty was not a forgone conclusion in my opinion but an unfortunate combination of events and the forces of reaction.