The racism in the Patriot, is the blindness to the reality of Black life in South Carolina, which was a living hell. In the Patriot, one gets the picture of happy smiling children of the kindly massa... makes you want to puke, or, in the case of the many Black people in the audience, when I saw the film, shout at the screan "Oh come on!" or "What's this B*ll Sh*T!?" (no kidding, it was better than the film!) So, I guess his father taught him about the old south as well.
Cheers Larry