This presidential address focuses on a specific and daunting assumption about racism that many find disturbing--a belief that no one born and raised in the United States is free from inheriting the racial biases of their forebears. It states explicitly that it is impossible for anyone to not to have racist, sexist, and homophobic attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. This conclusion comes from the author's years of research and work as a psychologist in the field of multicultural psychology and also on the work of many other psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and humanists in our society.