Now if somebody said employment — so black unemployment is great and black business creation, business ownership is up and that's great — but those are really sort of continuations of a trend. They have more to do with just economics and a good economy. They're not really about whether race relations are good. It just might mean they're no worse. You know, obviously if you're black you can get a job, right? But that was true before. So that doesn't really measure racism exactly.

So is there any — somebody said the number of race crimes. That would be interesting but dangerous because you worry that the way those things are measured might have drifted over time. In other words it might have been in the old days they would just say it's to do with race but maybe in our modern times maybe people would say, "Well it's not directly because of race but you can see how it affected," let's put it in this category.

Number of interracial marriages. Well that's interesting. How about number of people who spend quality time with people who are not their race? You could probably, I think you could probably get a reasonably decent survey of that idea. It would be a little hard because you're dealing with human memory and people want to put themselves in a certain light. But I think you could measure that over time. At least that's a good idea.

Changing voting patterns. I don't know if that really gets there. Mixed race birth rates maybe. You know, that I would say that's one of the good ones.

You know one of the standard jokes is that if somebody is accused of being a racist they say, "I can't be a racist because I have a black friend." And then everybody goes, "Haha, that's what racists say. Racists are the ones who say I can't be racist because I have a black friend." It's such a cliché that people mock it.

Here's what I think. I think that's a great start. If you asked me the best response to somebody who says, "I'm not a racist, I have a black friend," the best response is not "Hahaha, that's more racist." The best response is, "That's great. You should make some more. I hope next year you've got two black friends." Why are we discouraging something that's so clearly a step in the right direction?

Somebody said it would be a step in the right direction if a black candidate did not get 95% of the black vote. I do think that that had an impact on people's feeling about race relations. I just don't know exactly how.

All right, law enforcement. Let's say racist things on here.