Originally posted by Paul
I believe that all people deserve a good measure of respect. The presumption should be that George Bush or anyone else is not a racist of any kind instead of looking for ways in which he could speak and act like a non-racist while still being a racist.
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With my joking comment aside, I had this discussion once with a woman of colour, and I think it gets down to semantics, again. I "claim" not to be a "racist". I "claim" not to be "prejudice". I am not sure there is, in practice, much of a difference. We all have preconceived ideas about nearly everything, if from nothing else but our one earlier experience with a situation.

This person told me that we all are "racist" or "prejudice", or we wouldn't really be human...with the logic (or opinion) that it is only when this racism or prejudice gets in the way of fairness or equality or humane treatment that we have "issues".