Everyone's a little bit racist sometimes - the Avenue Q song is about the tendency of EVERYONE to be a little bit racist sometimes. That's the point of the song. It's highlighting the tendency of human beings to create 'otherness'. There are plenty of examples of 'othering' where skin colour isn't a factor, see the Jewish Holocaust, the rape of Nanking, and the Rwandan Genocide as examples.

What is important however, is to understand the process of racism... and that is creating a mindset where the specific characteristics of one person can be generalised to all other people. This is problematic. This has been especially problematic in the USA - and denying that the USA is problematic in its race relations is like pissing in a hurricane of evidence. Identity politics does exactly this, it creates little armoured groups trying to out-do each other in a power struggle. It can't work. It won't work. No one person can speak on behalf of a 'community' because the community they puport to speak for does not have a unity of purpose or strategy. Any messages coming out of the 'community' are therefore likely to be fragmented and confusing.

For that reason the social justice warriors of today will be the headache of tomorrow. There are two ways to combat othering, the first is to challenge it on an individual level, person by person. That takes time and progress will be slow....but mixing communities can work and does work. The second is with legalistic advocacy that challenges the underlying structures of society with an emphasis on equity. Do those things, and the world will become a better place.