First off, I still know loads of people in CT who epitomize clueless-white-folk-syndrome but unless you live in a place that straight up has a population of, like, five, it is my genuine feeling that at 2012, your exposure to people of color can’t be that limited unless you deliberately make it so. Like, you really have to try hard at sheltering your kid if, by the time your child is four, he or she is surprised that people look different from him or her. And by the time you get to a certain age, you don’t get any more passes for simply being ignorant anymore. You’re just racist. You are complicit in your own ignorance, and it’s not anyone else’s job to educate you but your own.