ALL PREJUDICES ARE CREATED EQUAL

What would it be called if "prejudice" worked in reverse? The word is a neutral (think about it) but it's come to mean negative feelings. Suppose I'm at Target; what if I'm extra courteous to another shopper — just because she's black — who's blocking the aisle? It's like Seymour Glass, who (with some help from J. D. Salinger) self-diagnosed his own reverse paranoia: He felt as if people were secretly plotting TO MAKE HIM HAPPY.

Prejudice:

(a) Princeton remained all-white, with the approval of its Southern president, Woodrow Wilson, who once advised a black prospective student that it would be “altogether inadvisable for a colored man to enter” Princeton. [Internet]

(b) “Theodore Roosevelt was one of many Progressives captivated by this notion: He opposed voting rights for African-American men, which were guaranteed by the 15th amendment, on the grounds that the black race was still in its adolescence.” [Internet again] He may have been a talented hunter, but anthropologically he is SO wrong.

(c) Pre-Obama: Linda, the owner of the first court-reporter agency I came to work for, gave me my first deposition to proofread. She told me it might be a bit difficult because the deponent was black and “you know how ‘they’ talk.” What!!! How could she say this to me? My husband could have been black. I could have several adopted Ethiopian children like my cousin Steve. What gets INTO people??? Linda is gornisht helfen because no one ever really gives up on prejudices once they've acquired them. And don't try to change my mind on this, ha ha.