Real Racism

Racism is horrible. However, being a racist doesn’t seem that bad now a days. Not that being racist is right, but because something or anything near racism is counted as racism in these times.

There’s a joke, that is about false racism. However, it could sound racist, and since it could sound racist, people usually say it’s racist. Anyhow, the joke goes like this. An African American man or a man of African descent says, “I’m black.” The Caucasian man says,”That’s cool”. Then the Caucasian man says, “I’m white.” The man of African descent says, “that’s racist.”

While the joke has several meanings. You can see the point that ideals of racism is just blown out of proportions. Furthermore, the fact that some people due to the color of their skin will been seen more racist,  just seems racist.

Nevertheless, racism, is really more a matter of the heart. That’s how one sees it personally. It’s not what you do, but how you do and why you do. Having that difference separates between racism and not racism.

Sadly, people don’t really view it that way and to a certain extent understandably. People just view that if any offense or reason to cause offense when talking about races, instantly is racist. Regardless, if the offense was actually so.

The ironic part about this real or perceived racism, is that it’s causing a divide like never before. It’s actually making things worse. The whole ideal that people have to walk around on eggshells is getting people jumpy.

If society cannot discuss things, because they fear the consequences there is a great danger. Such danger, history warns us; once the talking stops, war begins or civil unrest. If people can’t solve their differences peacefully, they’ll try it do so differently and more violently.

To a certain extent we shouldn’t really worry about offending people, as people are always offended. If someone feels that you have been racist. It’s not really the end of the world. People seem to think that once you have been seen racist, you have done something so evil.

Yes, being racist is not nice, because it offends people. However, like anything, if you offend, just apologize. A simple mistake nothing more nothing less. Most of the time, it’s an honest mistake and not one of true malice.

If they cannot handle it. You’ve done all you can. Furthermore, most of the time, with society gone overboard with this hunting for racist, you can apologize to the person you offended, and they will accept it, but to the people who were offended that you offended the original person; You can’t really apologize to them because they are so offended.

There is no doubt there are real racist, but they are only a few in number, and most people are just perceived racist. Calling someone a racist when they are not, is calling names and that’s rude. People should apologize, because if it’s not true, you’ve just called them a false name.

Real racism, and perceived racism will all just disappear, when we are able to offend people but be able to apologize and they are able to forgive. A society that can learn and move on, is a better society than a society that never makes a mistake. Otherwise, when the latter society makes a mistake, in this world full of mistakes, they will never be able to recover.