Why Charles is a racist is not important to me.  

The fact that he is a racist is what I object to.

He is of an age with many successful black people who don't rely on racism or bitterness.  

And many of those didn't rely of 'affirmative action' as a crutch to get ahead. Trump even hired one as a cabinet officer.  He is a multi-millionaire given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Obama as a children's pediatric surgeon.   

I knew many of them on active duty in the military.  And they weren't 'oreos', either.  They made it on merit, not on whining about how deprived they or their daddies or their grand daddies or great-grand daddies were.  

That 'whining' is Charles' stock in trade.  A black Eeyore is what he sounds like.