I choose to visualise your grandfather as a rather blustery, impeccably groomed old chap with a moustache and a bowler. see also; Monocle.
Declaring: "I say, old chap! It's bloody marvellous waht they can train these darkies to do when they try hard enough. Why, many years ago one saved my life. Some of them are demmed near human!"

in this scenario I have just made a sweeping & unfairly generalised judgment on a hopelessly outdated stereotypical Englishman.

Does that make it racist? Am I a horrid Brit-hating racist bully? ( yes ) Because, a lot of supposedly 'racist' remarks being flounced at this week are merely outdated stereotypes. Fact.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Mon 31 Oct 2011, 1:35, 2 replies)

Pretty sure he'd have been American
Isn't racism largely a manifestation of stereotyping though? Perhaps I'm missing your point...
(evil_edna, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 3:42, closed)

Oh, so now I HAVE to have a point?
don't you try to impose your values on me.
fuck off with your bigotry.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Mon 31 Oct 2011, 3:57, closed)

He was very American. From Illinois.
Was always impeccably dressed, but not well mannered. His usual demeanor was gruff and mean. After his surgery, black people were just as good as white to him, and longer subhuman like the French and the Japanese.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Mon 31 Oct 2011, 4:29, closed)

ALL black people were just as good as white?
Or just that cheeky young monkey who won his trust?
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Mon 31 Oct 2011, 4:38, closed)