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Why is it that usually only whites "guys" are called racists?

Michael Richards, better known as Kramer from his TV days on Seinfeld makes a good point: "There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc. And then, there are just Americans. You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction, calling me 'white boy', 'cracker', 'honkey,'whitey'...and that's ok. But when I call you towel head, kike, camel jockey, beaner, gook, etc., you call me a racist."

"You have the United Negro College Fund, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Cesar Chavez Day, NAACP, BET (If whites had WET - White Entertainment Television - they would be considered racists. White Pride Day and White History Day, you'd be a racist."

There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the U.S. Yet, if there were 'white colleges', that would be a racist college.

You get the point...calling the race card is just a cop out.

LaurieMar, I owe you a beer. My point exactly, two sets of rules due to polical correctness. Political correctness is the result of white guilt. No one else has to be politically correct. All it takes is one complaint (by either someone who is offended, or some guilty whitey who fears someone else may be offended) and that nativity scene gets yanked off the churchs lawn. But....a couple of million New Yorkers may not be able to keep that mosque away from ground zero. Hmmmm. Movements to get those offensive crosses out of the ditch where a loved one died. I am totally disgusted by this white guilt.

In that case, Bobber, my preference for libations is mostly "Mexican" - tequila and Mexican beers. LOL.

You are right: two sets of rules. Mr. Michaels quotes above are from an actual court argument he made when he was cited for a racial slur on a comedy show. Geesh. I bet the Judge's jaw dropped - pretty good argument!

I like it

One has to take the history of the US into consideration before one starts calling the race card a cop-out. Blacks were still slaves a 150 years ago and that still affects this country. It took the Civil Rights Acts of 1965 to legislate against outright racist rules. The KKK was still lynching blacks into the 50's.
The Irish were stigmitized during the 1800's. Same with the Chinese and Jews.
Now it's the Muslims.
When you take into context grandfathering of jobs, ie., my grandfather was a fireman, my father was a fireman, I am a fireman, I'll be damned if some minority is going to take away the job from my son, never mind he's a moron. We (whites) deserve those jobs.
Might have something to do with the sensitivity about racism, don't you think?

El crapo all the way.

Anybody still alive from 150 years ago? Nope. Is rascism still alive in the country? Yup, fueled mostly by the race baiters.

Muslims having to pay their dues and prove by their actions that they are citizen material (like everyone else had to do), maybe a little dated. Their actions suspect because of a small minority who do a lot of damage to their image.

Have you ever been denied a job because you were not a member of the current minority designated by the gov? I have. I was told by the recruiter that if I were female or minority, he'd hire me in a second. Where the heck was "regardless of blah blah blah" then?

Why should I be any more sensitive to race than the next person who happens to be non-white? I think the majority of whites are more sensitive, even when they are not infused with any of that guilt we are supposed to have, regardless of not having a damn thing to do with any previous events.

Let's face it, measuring people by the quality of their character is offensive to all of those who have no character they are proud of.

You're right, nobody is alive from 150 years ago. Then explain the proliferation of Confederate flags? Those guys lost the war, but still seem intent on keeping the flames alive.
Racism dies hard, it gets passed from generation to generation. And don't forget, desegregation didn't happen until the 60's, and there are lots alive from then. Blacks were forced to the back of the bus, had separate drinking fountains. They fought separately during WWII and even had to fight racism in the Air Force. Those people are still alive.
In other words, history.

Hmmm, so, no difference between the 60's and now? If I remember my history correctly, deseg would have happened earlier if it were not for the Dems. There, politics out of the way. Might you concede that if the gov did not have to lower the bar for most minorities, give them preferential treatment, we may have made more progress as a country? Maybe we did them a dis-service out of the pervasive guilt and a desire to make things right. We hold them to different standards it seems. Can't we all be equal? Some are just more equal than others I guess.

"If you set yourself apart, do not complain about being treated differently".

P.S. My people did not get here until the civil war, never owned slaves, paid their dues and progressed. Will I still have to pay for reparations?

and now back to our show about Ronnie Reagan.;) Jhill123, where do you work? I just retired after 31 years in the FD.

My only point to that analogy was that there are built in biases for a lot of people.
Another example would be the legacy admissions to Colleges. Bush Jr couldn't have gotten into a community college if it weren't for the fact that his father and grandfather were who they were.