What technically is racism? Lets consider this. I keep asserting George Bush isnt actually a racist, and neither is John McCain. However I only mean this in the fact that they dont blame all the worlds problems on niggers or have a personal vendeta against people of different colors. However, I could be wrong about that excluding them from racism. The reason is that I dont believe either one of them would ever take the time to gain the perspective and understanding neccessary to deal with the actual race issues in our country.
Housing for example is one place where people have decidedly different experiences depending on race. The behaviors taken against colored people should be universally illegal to do to anyone, but since whites dont encounter these problems it has been made a race issue in the law. I think this is stupid. The behavior should be illegal against anyone. But makeing a white lawmaker, who has never experienced what I am talking about, take the time to hear me out, or do the work to understand why this is such a dangerous situation for the US is pie in the sky thinking.
On the other hand, when you show emperically that housing issues for minorities in the US are the main factor that leads to the incarceration disparity for minorities in the US, many law makers will say "is that a bad thing? maybe we should have fewer housing regulation and lock them all up in prison." and that is racism. Using race to exclude people from law enforcement so that they are easier to steal from is still racism. If you are attracted to people of other colors because you dont have to treat them as respectfully as you do people of your own color it is still racism.
Allowing people of other races to associate with you only on your own terms and those terms clearly exclude acting in any way like their differences are not inferiorities is also racism.
The US is not a primordial European country. This is not a place with thousands of years of continual race identity and a specific bloodline or collection of bloodlines. It is a geographical territory and a collection of laws. It is not a racial homeland.
