my wife endured a drunken state-of-the-world rant
Ah yes, there is a certain pleasure in giving one's spouse a lengthy commentary on the ills of the world every now and then.
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It is preposterous how much white people fixate on skin color! *wink wink*
On a more serious note, I have noticed that eurodescendants do have a learned cultural idea of their own superiority, such that most of them tend to have such deep-rooted ideas that could be called "racist", even the notion of race is, I am informed, an european one.
But in general, whenever somebody says something like "<color> people are such and such", you can safely remove "<color>" and still be about as right (or wrong). Turns out, people at large have very bad qualities.
Not you, of course, you are a charm ;-)