Oh my goodness, thank you Margaret Wente. It is so seldom that anyone writes about racism without indulging in sanctimonious and virtuous outrage. A few generation back, when racism in North America’s white majority was rampant and pervasive, it did take courage, real courage, to take a public and moral stand against it. And that fell on the shoulders of a courageous few. The story is grossly different today. Sure racism exists, but only as a shadow of its former self. By and large, we have moved a great distance from the things that our parents, grandparents and earlier generations said and thought (thanks largely to the heroic efforts of those early pioneers of civil rights). Today there is no price to pay for opposing racism. It takes no courage, and no medals need be awarded. We are almost all on the same page. 

Progress must and will continue. But those who describe Canada as racist and intolerant need to look hard in the mirror and then just get a grip.