What is a racist?

When I was growing up a racist was someone who hated others because of their skin color.

He/she was ignorant and intolerant.

Now it seems the meaning of the word has changed.

This is my observation of what the word means today:

• A racist is someone who doesn’t share a liberal point of view.
• A racist is someone who doesn’t want to give advantages to people based on skin color.
• A racist is someone who thinks paying the great-great grandson of a slave is meaningless.
• A racist is someone who believes that someone other than a white person can possible be a racist.
• A racist is someone who thinks everyone should be treated the same no matter what skin color they have (this means no special rights, no scholarships that exclude white people, etc)

The problem as I see it is….. Once you dilute the word racist for political gain…. You give the old-time racists a tool to use to try and go back to the old-time racism… real racism…. Hating people for their skin color.

Perhaps we should come up with another word so this doesn’t happen.

Oh, sure, just what we need… another politically correct word.

What was I thinking?