One thing I've noticed is that usually the first people to cry racist are the ones that get their feelings hurt every time they don't get their own way. Regardless of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
There's this woman at work who's around 44, but acts like she's about 14. One day she was carrying on about the movie "Blazing Saddles", whom someone recommended to her. She bought it, watched about 10 minutes of it, and got so offended she threw it away! And then one day at work proceeded to gripe about it for a good hour or more.
Well, if she had just kept her mouth shut, that movie never would have entered my mind. But mouthing off, she actually aroused my curiosity, so I rented it one night. Watched it with one of my best friends, who's black, and he laughed his ass off more than I did! Hell, if you pay half a wit's worth of attention to the movie, anybody can figure out that the black guy is the HERO of the movie!
I remember mentioning the movie to one of my friends, who's older than me, and he told me about how he and some of his buddies went to see it in the theaters when it first came out. Their group consisted of both black and white people, but overall the crowd in the theater was mostly black. Once the N-words started flying on the silver screen, the white people became really self conscious, but the blacks thought it was hysterical!
I guess some people can understand that just because a character in a movie is racist, that doesn't mean that the movie itself is racist! Or the people associated with it. To this day, I don't think my co-worker would be able to handle the confusion if I told her the creator of "All in the Family" is Jewish!
Anyway, some people just go looking for racism. It's like a fetish for them or something, almost as if they revel in pointing the finger and screaming bigot. And these people just go looking so hard for it that, in their minds they find it. Whether it's really there or not.