We need to talk about the sin of racism as the sin of indifference.  My own experience as a white person, was to believe I was not racist-I never openly disliked black people or said anything disrespectful of them, I always had at least one black friend.  Most white Americans think this way unless they are forced to look deeper.  My awakening took place as the result of several pointed conversations with courageous people who were willing to point out how my indifference made me complicit in the sin of racism.  Our parishes are also guilty of indifference.  Last January, of several thousand Catholics in my town, only 4 Catholics (all lay people) attended the MLK Jr. Day March.  White privilege is like the wind, we can't see it, we can choose not to notice (and most white people I know don't) but it is always there.  The sin of indifference is where our parishes should start, and we must start this effort ourselves, don't wait for the Bishops, for heaven's sake!