There Is No Such Thing As Reverse Racism

I would definitely classify myself as a liberal, simply for the reason that my beliefs are most aligned with those of most liberals. However there is one issue I find myself extremely sensitive on.

Racism is one of the worst inventions man has ever created. Just the idea of race was created as a classification system to place one cultural, geographical, and phenotypical group above another. Charles Mills called this the Racial Contract. Where whites make an agreement with each other to put all others into subcategories, therefore creating race(For a quick summary of Mills' work). This is one of the interesting takes on modern race relations. The issue is by no means clear. Racism has existed since race has and cannot therefore be simplified by any one philosopher.

My point is this, people make stupid mistakes. For example, Don Imus was just today suspended for making racial comments about a woman's basketball team. Of course his comments were uncalled for, but for once I find myself siding with something said on FOX news. If the situation were the other way around, it would be funny, or at the very least, ignored. Rarely do you find anyone that is "non-white" make a comment about "whites" and they are suspended. It just doesn't happen. And I can understand why. Ok, I get it, we dominated every other "race" and so this is our price...at the very least...this is what they get in exchange for hundreds of years of enslavement. But the last time I checked, I didn't hurt anyone. And sometimes, yes, I am hurt by comments made about Europeans, etc. Do you see me making a huge deal out of it? No. Because the only way we will EVER be able to erase racism, is if we let the word, and everything else lose meaning. As soon as we make a huge deal over something like this, then racism gets all the power back. If we laugh, if we ignore, if we move on from such obviously stupid and meaningless comments, then we, as people in general, can move on and live together without giving any one such hateful idea any more time than its worth.

And I repeat, I don't want to offend anyone. All I am saying is this: The more time we focus on racism and how horrible it is (which we all already know), the more time racism gets.

And just for the record, racism... is racism, It doesn't matter who said what about whoever. If an Asian-American makes a comment about "whites"...that is racism. ok? No where in the dictionary does it say that it is "whites" saying something about "non-whites". I just wanted to clarify :)