answer:Personally (To get the ball rolling to show you what I mean). My problem was never really racism or any kind of real bigotry… My personal problem is a mouth, a temper, and a defensive tick that goes off when I feel threatened or hurt. Depending on who it is that the issue is with, over time being overly sensitive and easily wounded, I learned as a response to shock, and lash out using the worst thing I could say as a defense. That however came from hypothetical “old-tapes” that were played over and over again in my home environment in regualr conversation, lack of interaction, and plain out ignorance. I have learned over the course of my life that those things that I was… not even taught, but that were just a part of the daily language in my generation in the 1970’s and 1980’s and in my home as well… Were hurtful, wrong and really just not true depictions of race color creed or anything different from what we were. So in my case, I have used instances of bigotry, as a defence, in frustration, as well as in ignoranc, but I believe very much that although these things can be learned responses, they can also be unlearned and a person can be shown the truth by evidence, by experience and by compassion. Now that I am older, and wiser… It isn’t even there anymore, when I get angry, or upset the language isn’t there in a hostile manner. It just doesn’t exist.