Racial sensitivity

If you want the world to be filled with racism, that will likely become how you perceive the world. These days, just about everything is considered racist. Even though we have made tremendous progress over the years, a lot of minorities act as though things are as bad for them as they have ever been.


There have been numerous bizarre claims of racism over the years. I have heard (indirectly) of stories about how it is racist for white people to reproduce and how milk is racist. During Barack Obama's presidency, anyone who dared to disagree with Obama's policies was accused of racism. Just about everything these days is considered racist.

People might not be 100% wrong on these kinds of issues. If you acknowledge differences in race, you will develop some form of racial bias. Racial bias can work its way into anything. Of course, there are limits to how much we can fight human nature. We all need to be tolerant of at least some degree of humanity. Criticizing the possibility of something being racist will only lead to more division, and this will never be an effective approach to a tolerant society.

There's another problem with how sensitive we seem to be on racial matters. The sensitivity seems to only go in one direction. Yes, white people can act racist against black people. It's also true that black people can act racist against white people. You can also find blacks against blacks and whites against whites. And all of this is taking only two races into consideration.

Take a look at affirmative action. Although places such as colleges defend themselves by insisting that they can't make admissions decisions solely on the basis of race, there is no question that they have embraced policies of racial discrimination. Oddly enough, most people who find racism in everything can't find it in affirmative action.