It is
impossible not to be a
racist. No matter how hard they try to avoid it, all
humans have the
natural tendency to
subconsciously think that their way is right until proven otherwise... This applies to
race as well. I am (
unfortunately) racist myself, but I don't
act on it. I go to Little Rock Central High, and I'm in the
white minority. I've (inexplicably) been called a
nigga before (in the
derogatory sense of the word, not the friendly), and on one of the first days of
Junior High, I sat down by some
black people at lunch and one of them told me to go sit with my "own kind..." Fortunately, one of them stood up for me, but I was still in the scared-quiet phase of Junior High, so I just sat there and looked confused.
Perhaps racism is even partially justified... I moved to Little Rock from Branson, Missouri and I'd hardly seen five black people in my life. I couldn't understand how they spoke or how they acted - they constituted a whole alien culture for me. By now I've learned to like people of all races, no thanks to constant bombardment by Martin Luther King, Jr. videos, but thanks to pure experience and tolerance.