Originally posted by zippy-kat
That's pretty interesting!! I've never heard of "racism free" schools.

I was just curious on how people view it. Personally, I feel that it's a cop out for many things (ie used unjustly or in the wrong context). For instance a person of xyz race being stopped for a speeding ticket and blaming the cop for being racist/prejudiced. (Yes, it has happened in this town... city's in a law suit right now.)

When it is "true" racism, I do think it's a SERIOUS issue. But again, it has become a bit of a "cheap" phrase. It's tossed around pretty lightly these days and I wonder if the "true" instances of racism are overlooked because of it. Sort of a "don't cry wolf" issue...
I think you present a good point. It's the same thing with sexual harrassment. Here's a good example. A client I have works at a law firm so she was involved in the whole thing:

A women works in the office of a construction company. One day she comes in wearing all purple. Purple shirt, purple skirt, purple hose, purple shoes, purple earrings. So one of the guys says to her, "hey, you must be wearing purple underwear, too."! She filed and won $50,000 for sexual harrassment. What a shame. First off all, if should be illegal to wear a butt ugly outfit like that. Secondly, when you wear something like that you have to know you're making yourself a target. Especially at a construction company. And the lady had to bring the outfit to the lawyers office and my client said it was the most purple outfit she'd ever seen. LOL

My point is that it seems like there are more legit sexual harrassment cases out there and this one was just a waste of time and I think it de-values (is that a word?) the truly important issue.