I'm Racist, You're Racist, Everybody's Racist!

Now, don't get all up in arms, telling me about all the black friends you have (or white, if you're black) or how your nanny was Hispanic or whatever.  By definition, the fact that you categorize people based on race, which, if you were raised in, well, the world, you do, makes you racist.  Here you have taken a thing which actually does not exist, being that the categories of races used in common vernacular are social constructs which may be easily usurped by modern convention, and utilized it to form predispositions about others based purely on appearance.

I don't mean to imply that because you're a big time racist you also actively discriminate based on race.  There are probably more than a billion racists in the world who work every day towards the elimination of race based discrimination.  This doesn't take away from the fact that they're all quite racist, even more so I'm sure, because they are so heavily involved in race related issues. 

For example, if a white woman on a bus keeps an eye on a black man sitting nearby because she fears he may snatch her iPhone, she is no more racist than he is for paying her no mind because he assumes she will sit quietly and keep to herself until her stop.  Regardless of the consequences of these inferences, the fact that they are made based almost exclusively on racial appearance makes both parties equally racist.

Right now you may be asking yourself, "If everyone is racist then why do we still have to talk about race?"

Personally, I choose not to talk about race with people who are unwilling to admit their inherent racism because that conversation is pointless.  It is only when you admit that you're racist that you will finally be able to fully comprehend how much race based discrimination still continues on in every aspect of culture and civilization.  Only then does the conversation about race have any meaning and we can finally begin the multi-generational journey towards a truly post-racial civilization. 

Either that or a compulsory globe-wide inter-breeding program.