Can you keep a raccoon for a pet?

Understand that domestication is a long term process that takes at minimum, hundreds of years. It is possible, although not certain, that selective breeding over a long period of time could make raccoons acceptable pets. A 50 year experiment in the Soviet Union started to accomplish this with silver foxes, by selecting for docility. However, simply raising a wild raccoon is not domesitcating it, it is taming it. And it will still be a wild animal, and almost certainly a poor pet.