Noun.
1) Strict definition: An irrational bias towards members of a racial background. The bias can be positive (e.g. one race can prefer the company of its own race or even another) or it can be negative (e.g. one race can hate another). To qualify as racism, the bias must be irrational. That is, it cannot have a factual basis for preference.
2) Commonly intended definition(in America): A bias that white people have against blacks.
3) Politically motivated definition: A justifiable reason to redistribute resources or opportunities between groups on the basis of race alone.
1) One is not a racist for pointing out that blacks receive lower scores on their ACTs, SATs, GREs, LSATs and other standardized tests of academic achievement.
2) One is a racist for pointing out #1 *IF* there is no reason for pointing it out other than to make black people feel inferior.
3) Racism is the reason that a 20 on the ACT should actually be considered a 25 if the test taker was black.
I am disgusted that the President of this America would challenge anyone whom uses a dictionary to define a term! Words are the only form humans have to communicate; and every time we allow someone to discredit the meaning of a word, or phrase, we allow the concept of "proper articulation" to be belittled; and destroyed! I am essentially blind to the color of a human being; however, I am VERY critical of so-called inteligence when there is no place to reference said information, i.e. a dictionary, encyclopedia; and recorded history, in general. I'm a racist? President Obama would have you believe so; however, the varieties of people in this world would diagree upon closer inspection, as would anyone with half a brain. If brains were dynamite, racists wouldn't have enough to "blow" their noses!!
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