Why are people so uncomfortable about race?

People are so uncomfortable because it offends others easily and a lot of people do want others to think they are racist so they feel uncomfortable. To your question if some people become complete jerks when there is a question about race, you barely realized that, if you are racist of course you are a jerk but then again you have to realize that those people are ignorant and they don't even know how stupid and uneducated they look so you just have to ignore them. But you must understand that not only whites are racist, every ethnicity on this planet has some people who are racist including blacks. Whenever you see a black comedian a lot of the time they make fun of the 'white man', yes they may be joking but that is still racist. I goes both ways. This is the way the world is get over it, I have and I just ignore the racism.