Saturday, May 30, 2009

Need for racism language

We need a racism language. We need to be able to define words and phrases that can be used in a discussion and analysis of racism. What has happened is that the words and expressions have been flogged the meaning out of them. I hear people calling a Hispanic nominee for the Supreme Court a racist by a white ex-politician and I wonder what the world is coming to. Of course this is a common occurrence that the racist calls the anti-racist a racist. And the interesting aspect of this kind of argument or rhetoric is that the racist audience licks it up. So the anti-racist is confused. The definitions have been diverted to petty name calling and have lost intrinsic meaning.