This is heartbreaking and pisses me off all in the same vein. I have a lot of black friends, dated a black girl for several years, and I just have always lived by the creed of I don't care what race, religion, gender or whatever you are, if you respect me I will respect you. Period.
I don't know what the answer is to solving the problem of racism and I fear that it is something that will not be solved as it were for years to come. I just don't see how you can hate somebody or be prejudice towards somebody else just because of the color of their skin. It should be about them as a person not what they look like.
I really don't know what else to say, just sucks that fellow human beings are like this.