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Originally Posted by creaturecat

"Afro-Americans" ARE Americans. no?
to distinguish based upon colour? - there's a word for that: racist.

Racism is not recognizing that races exist or using race as part of a description of a person. "That's a white guy. That's a black guy. That guy's Hispanic, and the other one looks Asian. That girl is blonde, and the other is a redhead." That statement does not make a person that says it racist or sexist or whatever .*ist you want.

If you were robbed/mugged by someone, and you were giving a description to the police, it would be idiocy to think "I can't say it was a (pick an ethnicity) guy because that would be racist."

It takes more than recognizing that people are different (which we all are) to be racist.