What do I mean by Racism 2.0? I mean the kind that allows a lot of white folks to still look at the larger community of people of color in a negative light and to still hold on to, as we admit in survey after survey, all kinds of negative stereotypes about black and brown people as a whole, but still be willing to carve out exceptions, you know, for those individual people of color who we don't feel are threatening, for those who make us sufficiently comfortable. But if the larger group is still held in a low regard, that's not the end of racism, that's Racism 2.0! It's enlightened exceptionalism - we're gonna make some exceptions for those black and brown folks who transcend race, which is actually a very racist concept.