Recently, a group of students at Washington State University showed their support for a Congressional bill that would create a fence spanning the U.S.-Mexico border. They showed their support by erecting a 24-foot-tall chain-link fence on Glenn Terrell Mall. (This would rank as one of the most clever things to ever come out of Washington State University, if you ask me.)
Anyway, some professors on campus leveled charges of racism toward the protestors. The professors began cursing, demanding student identification, and generally carrying on.
The incident got back to talk radio, as most things do, and the comment that stuck to me was a claim of "reverse racism," since the students in question were white.
Excuse me, but there's no such thing as "forward" or "reverse" racism. There's racism, and there isn't. Part of our problem as a country is our general refusal to call things as they are. Instead, we try to cover up what really is going on with vague and "politically correct" phrases that don't mean anything.
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