[WillowTheWhisp]

The daft thing about all these rules and laws and what have you about racism is that it doesn't matter what you do it will not change how people actually feel. If people with one colour of skin dislike people with a different colour of skin making laws about it isn't actually going to stop them disliking each other. They may well pretend on the surface that they are not and never will be racist but underneath they still are and always will be.

I worked with someone like that. She was nice as pie to the new girl who started but behind her back she was complaining that 'standards had fallen' because 'we were now employing people of an inferior race'!

Unfortunately it can actually often be counter productive because it tends to irritate and annoy the people who would never have considered what race or colour another person is until laws and rules appear which segregate people into ethnic groups.

If A and B are the same race/colour and A falls out with B it is simply seen as a difference of opinion between two people. If A and C are different race and A falls out with C some do-gooder group then rears its ugly head and accused A of being racist against C. A objects to this. B jumps on the bandwagon and before you know it A and B are developing racist feelings against 'that lot' because they can't stand on their own two feet. C then feels that the do-gooders were right all along and A really was being racist and before you know it the whole things has got completely out of hand.