Whatever "racism/racist" means, I'd like to suggest that it's impossible for any individual to avoid picking up and internalizing racist concepts and attitudes when living in a racist culture. They permeate the language, the social and economic structure, and every facet of human interactions, in complex and often cryptic and even contradictory ways. So saying that MT, or I, or you, has racist attitudes and expresses them one way or another is not surprising. It's what we do about it that matters: acknowledging their presence and trying to understand and evaluate and eliminate them - and I'd say that MT was an exemplary thinker in those regards, even if he never completely surmounted some of the prejudices of his time and situation. Who of us ever has? (I wonder if his white suit was, in part, an ironic self-commentary on the not-so-pure person within!) Ben Keene State College Keene, NH