Let me give you a positive thing. So without getting into details of my personal life, I was listening to a conversation from some preteens, teens actually, some young teens in my local area. They were having the conversation and I was listening to it. The entire conversation was about race. It was people talking about their friends. And they were saying, you know, this friend is one of these, this friend is one of these, and you know these people talk this way and these people have this funny accent and these people have this characteristic. And my first reaction to it was shock because all they talked about was race. My second reaction was that they all loved each other, which was shocking because the way they were talking about race was not really negative. In fact it was jokingly negative in the way that teenagers joke, but it wasn't negative in their hearts. You could tell that there was affection and that the race was a conversation and that they were sort of, let's just say they were interacting with the differences. They were talking about the differences, you know that this group has these tendencies whatever, but none of it seemed mean-spirited. It seemed like, you know, there's another, it seems like the generation coming up talks about race completely explicitly and all the time because it doesn't mean the same thing. It's lost its power now.

I'm not sure that this would be the same everywhere and with every group, but it's just one of those little things you see and you say, wow, you know it looks like it lost its power because the people who were talking were, you know, it was a mixed group. So I hope that's a good thing and I hope I'm not misunderstanding what was going on there. But it looks like, and I've seen this before by the way, it's not the one conversation, I've seen it, but it seems like the next generation is going to be just having fun with the differences but not taking them too seriously, which would be the gigantic leap forward for civilization, I think.