WHY IS RACISM BAD AND SEXISM OK?

Dilan Esper on the Masters:

I think there is something deeper than this. We have certainly become a less sexist society now than we were. But traditional gender roles have had more staying power in society than traditional racial roles, which seem to be relegated to the presence of a black bellhop at a fancy hotel (a sight I always wince at when I see it). There are a lot of people who have learned not to say so many sexist things, and maybe to accept women in their workplace, but who still believe, perhaps for religious reasons, or perhaps simply because they long for a more patriarchal society, that women shouldn't occupy the new roles that they have been permitted. Whatever the reason, it is extremely troubling-- after all, there is no better reason that the rich males of Georgia ought to be able to exclude women from the social fora at which they make their business deals than there would be for the rich whites of Georgia to exclude blacks from those same fora. Yet I have a feeling the rich males are going to get away with it.