What is racism? Racism is the act of determining how you treat someone based upon the color of their skin, or the origin of their being. Racism doesn’t always mean that you treat someone poorly because of the color of their skin. You can give preferential treatment to a person because of the color of their skin and still be a racist.
Being racist means always looking at the world through the prism of a person’s color.
Martin Luther King Jr. described what a colorblind society would look like. He said that people would be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
So, is it not racist to give preferential treatment to someone because of the color of their skin, regardless of color? I say it is.
In the case of President Trump, would it not be racist of him to withhold criticism of someone because of the color of their skin? I say yes.
Trump criticizes regardless of skin color. It is the real racists who cry foul and claim racism, for they are the ones with an expectation that people ought to receive special treatment due to the skin color of the people in question. Anyone who says that a white person cannot criticize a black person based upon the content of their character is indeed themselves a racist.
The fact that Trump criticizes everyone with the same sort of fury shows that he is not racist, for he doesn’t look at the color of their skin and change his message because of it. He sees the content of their character as flawed, and he attacks them the same as any other person he disagrees with. You can disagree with his style, but he is not racist. However, his actions are exposing racists for what they are. The ones crowing the loudest are the ones who see everything through the prism of race and wish for special treatment because of a person’s color.
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