Don't crack the beers open, trust me. Read another book, watch another old movie, go hiking instead, or literally anything else. Don't smoke weed either, I've met too many stoners who insisted that it's not addicitve. Mind-altering substances feel great but they destroy your soul, as well as your ability to express yourself based on how I'm writing.

Anyway - yes, they, whoever they are, want to push racial strife everywhere, but the whole "judging by the context of the character" thing, I believe it worked very well 150 years ago in small, close-knit communities, when most people rarely traveled further than the next town over and when any stranger was regarded as suspicious. Because in a small community, a troublemaker is quickly recognized (and, yes, sometimes falsely). In a big city, this simple safety mechanism that has worked for thousands of years fails, because nobody knows each other, and then you either have to spend time with each individual stranger to get to know them, which is unreasonable when you meet a hundred strangers every time you walk on the street, or you just employ heuristics, which is much simpler: If the person you meet looks like you' he's more likely to be like you. That leaves people like you - to put it in American terms, people who left the "plantation" - absolutely fucked, and - I don't say this lightly - I'm very sorry about that, but what else can anyone do?