Max Fisher of the Washington Post suggested that maybe 'Americans are conditioned by their education and media to keep these sorts of racial preferences private, i.e. to lie about them on surveys, in a way that Indians might not be'.
There's your answer. Americans are not only the most racist people in the world, as everyone knows; they're also the biggest liars in the world. The end.
And we all know the integrity of WaPo reporters . . .
Exactly. With political correctness so pervasive at every level of society, say the wrong thing and you’re toast.