It just happened that i saw an old South Park episode yesterday, closely related to the topic. It was about the town flag showing several white guys "dancing" around a hanged black man. The society was split in half -- those who wanted to keep the flag as it was part of the history and the others, who wanted it to be changed because it was racist. At the end, much like in the tale about the naked king, it turned out that none of the kids sees the racism in the flag. What they saw was the hanging of a man.