I knew this guy when we were in our early twenties. Most of the time, if not all of the time, it was in the company of all of the other guys in our Dice Baseball league (APBA Baseball) so if we did talk about anything, it would probably be about sports. Since then, I moved away and started my career. I believe that he moved to North Carolina, married and had a family. The only contact I had with him over the last three decades was mainly involving that baseball league (which I finally quit in 2010). So there’s a good chance that he’d always held these racist views, that he was always an avid right wing nut. It just took Social media and his desire to spread those opinions and thoughts to force me to cut ties with him completely.