On Racism

An excellent blog post by Rachel Lucas about racism. For a long time I have maintained that everyone is basically is a racist. Rachel takes the idea and makes excellent points, points I was too lazy dumb to make myself.

On the definition of racism she writes:

And the second definition? If everyone who has racial prejudice is a racist, then I think I’m on pretty solid ground when I say damn near every single human being on the planet right now is, in fact, a racist. There is absolutely ZERO difference between blacks and whites on that point and everybody knows it.

Read the whole thing.