blog 5

        Racism is a sensitive subject for many and a subject that has been around since the beginning of time and wont be leaving anytime soon. In my opinion racism is part of human nature, a natural born instinct. People naturally want to be around those who are similar to them, this is were they feel comfortable. People often find the humans similar to them and hang around these people. The idea of racism itself is an exaggerated concept derived from the natural human instinct to avoid those different from you.
       There are many people that take this instinct to an extreme, creating hate crimes which is by completely unacceptable. Most people are not like this however are considered racist for being themselves, following natural instinct. Usually people who talk about racism are the real ones with the problem. I believe people are over sensitive and accuse everyone different from them of being racist. People fear being accused of racism to the point were they look for small things to hint towards a racist act that have no racist intent. If someone asks a black person to play basketball, the person may take offense and accuse them of being racist. How is such an innocent act racist? Examples similar to this one form from insecurity not racism.
        When people categorize others they are accused of being racist. This is absurd. For example many black communities are know to be full of crime. If I decide to avoid traveling through a black community with my family based off statistics am i being racist? No I am using common sense. This does not mean black people are dangerous nor bad people, many are great people. Taking offense to such a concept is only promoting racism. Why can a African American categorize themselves and friends as a n*ger but if a white person mentions the word it is a sin? In these innocent scenarios racism is brought forward by the so called victim. The natural instinct will last forever exaggerating small cases into something they are not is what needs to be prevented.