When you look up the word racism in the dictionary, you will find the definition is: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
The race card is used daily, "it is because I'm white." or "Those crackers are doing this because we are black."
The race card has been played since Obama sought the Presidential seat and really came into play when he was elected. I remember the night and weeks after Obama won the election, I attended Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdoches. That night people came out of their dorm rooms, and screamed, "Watch out, all you crackers, we got a black president now."
Jump ahead a couple of years, people are claiming the "birthers" are racist because they asked for Obama's birth certificate because he is black. Now they are demanding to see his records from college.
The color of the skin is not the factor into why people dislike Obama, it is his views on issues, it is his politics. Maybe the birthers have a right to ask considering there are conflicting reports coming from his own family to where he was born.The color of your skin has been a heated issue since the birth of this nation. First, group that was affect was the Indians, then came the blacks and people of Japanese decent. Everyone at some point in their lives will have to deal with being called a racist and the people in the public eye have to sometimes deal with it more.
In the definition it states racism is "inherited differences among the various human races determine cultural." We do inherent the views of our ancestors, and one powerful hand, the 'race card'; which has been played more than 100 years.
You learned people believed that the world was flat, that airplanes only existed in the imagination. People grow up, times change, views change based on one's personal experiences but, why is it that people believe this ONE belief has not changed in time. Why can we not drop the 'race card'.
My question is, are people really racist or is the race card played to much when people disagree or do not get their way?
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