As long as we continue to attribute an individuals behavior to their race, racism will continue to be an issue. When we finally learn to treat people as individuals, responsible and accountable only for their own actions then calling the race card will no longer provide a refuge behind which anyone can hide.
Until that time I have no problem with giving those who have been persecuted by virtue of their ancestry, by those who do not have the capacity to see beyond the difference in colour of another�s skin, the benefit of a doubt.
If colour is in anyway an issue then it is the white race (of which I am considered a member) that deserves as much or more than any other to hide in shame.