Hrm.
Just because the LGBT community won the right to marry once people saw enough harmless, white gay couples doesn't mean we've moved more than that one fucking inch on civil rights in 25 years. Obama? Don't make me laugh.
That's one of the things that I miss about earlier material in SR before it took a giant left turn in the 2000s. The Japanacorps were ultra-conservative, non-Japanese humans knew they were second-class, and rarely the twain should meet. God forbid you were in love with a kawaruhito? No. You just weren't, or you weren't long for the corporate life. The other corporations were also racist and conservative, as corporatism leads social structures to be, in their own ways. There is nothing to suggest to me that racism should have changed at all in 25 years beyond some minor cosmetics. It doesn't go away. It just gets more insidious and clandestine, even covert, to make people doubt themselves when they do see racism.