If I didn't already know who Bernie is, and Obama hadn't won twice, what would I be thinking now?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. You certainly aren't going to win over the hardcore bigots any time soon.

But people change over time, no one is truly static. The more they're allowed to stew in their bigotry, probably the more they're going to deepen in it. So we work on the 'casual bigots', we try to push them to grow a bit less bigoted, baby step at a time. The people who are bigoted simply because that's what they grew up with, that's who they associate with, who are ignorant and apathetic. We get them talking, point out little bits of history that they've never heard, talk about redlining, about loan practices, how groups get shafted in a million little (and big) ways, slowly get them to admit that some of the stereotypes they held were actually the results of external forces sabotaging communities.

And, as you said, we show them how racism is used as a tool of capitalism, scapegoating used to prevent them from 'looking behind the curtain'.