You aren't kidding! As a "hick" who spent ten years in Boston, the enlightened northeasterners always shared how racist and backward people from the south were, but were so laughably blind to their own racism.
The most racist? The liberal academics in Cambridge. One of my best drinking buddies up there was a middle aged black guy I worked with (also a fellow southerner). When he and I would go out for beer, shots and pool, we garnered some real interest.
I remember one night, he and I were in Davis square at a bar b que joint (frequented mostly by college types and hipsters) and a lesbian couple at the table next to us kept looking at us and smiling indulgently. You could almost smell the celebration of our "diversity" and multiculturalism (50+ black guy, former boxer and me, short little blonde chick). Finally, my friend couldn't take it anymore, he said, loudly, "Hey, when do you think these two lezzies will quit showing us how much they approve of us?"
The women in sensible shoes were pretty stung by that, but at least they quit trying to engage us in this mutual appreciation society of tolerance and diversity and smug superiority. But it was certainly funny, every time we went out in Tech Square or Harvard, we'd always be surrounded by white, upper class and over educated libs smiling at us like zoo animals. Talk about color blind...
They just wanted to pat you on your widdow haid! ;-)
Tell your pal he gave me my first real laugh today!