My God, there's a whole shitpot full of racism where none exists.
Case in point--yesterday one of the contractors (who is black) and I were talking about the (ahem) demographic in NH, and I mentioned that I wasn't always comfortable with it. I even joked that there were so few black people in NH that people wouldn't know how to react to him, whereupon we both chuckled at it. He knew I wasn't your typical suburban white-bred, especially when I told him where my grandparents lived (67th and Arlington--South Central LA), where my parents and I lived when I was a child (Inglewood/Hawthorne), etc.
No Klan sheets, no burning crosses, no words of hate exchanged. Just a joke or two. Amazing how that works.