Racism is about otherness, and on a strictly visual level, black people look more "other" to white people than any other group (aside from the Australian Aboriginal group). Plus if you don't grow up around people of any particular race, they're always going to stand out in your mind. My hometown is paralyzingly white-bread (a lot of poor folks, but the black ones are all in the city proper, and there were only a dozen black children in my entire school district for high school), so on a subconscious level, it's harder for me to see blacks as "normal," simply because they weren't around when i grew up. Going to school in Philadelphia really helped with that, however.
So long as you consciously acknowledge equality and your actions reflect such, you have nothing to worry about.
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