by Rand E Oertle

Created on: May 30, 2011

Am I a racist? The truth of this question is in the inquisitory and accusatory nature. It is a direct question to the person reading it. To answer honestly, as it asks, requires a first person response. To answer in the second or third person, negates the direct examination of the implication. The question's author assumes and implies a kind of perpetual racism, and that one person practices it against another race.

To be brutally honest, persons of all races must answer the query: yes, no, maybe sometimes and to which race is it referring? What race does one have to be to practice racism? Can a person practice racism against all races or just one? Political correctness assumes, practically by definition, that all racism is white on black. That is not true and never has been.  

What really is racism. Does it mean if you disagree with a person of another race about a political issue that you are a racist? In today's American society with a black president the answer has become yes. Anyone who disagrees with the health care issue, profligate spending and national debt accumulation are labeled racists because they object to those policies. 

If they object to the application of regulations that skewer businesses and demolish job creation they are labeled racists because, and only because, they disagree with a black president. It has cheapened and demeaned the opportunity of political discourse and a chance to resolve issues that have fundamentally changed the nature of the US Constitution. Just by writing this I will be identified a racist. No amount of my denial will erase the label. Yet, all of the issues raised in this essay will be automatically discounted by "anti-racist" zealots who will become unhinged in applying the race card to me. 

The epithet of "RACIST" is screamed at anyone who disagrees with the left politically.

History is replete with examples of racism and it's forms are infinite. For example the person who wrote this title is, has been, will be, has suppressed being, denied being, or lied about being a racist.  It sounds as though the question is presented to allow the writer to exhibit a holier-than-thou smugness.

There are two unholy, accusations that exist in "American" societal lexicon today that forever stain the accused. Whether an accusation is true or not is immaterial. In politics the first accusation against any opponent

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