If someone refers to someone as "the colored girl", is the person being racist? Is the person a racist intentionally or is the behavior ingrained that it's just comes out naturally? Is the ingrained behavior inherently racist? If they are able to change their wording, are they still racist (if they were in the first place)? If they have these issues of race flying through their minds when confronting an issue, does that make them evil or bad? Does it then make you evil or bad if you love that person (wife, mother, father, husband, boyfriend, cousin, brother, sister, grandfather, etc?)
I overheard that statement (about the "colored girl") at church last Sunday, and I don't think it was meant with any ill-intent, but the only way this person knew how to describe the girl in question. But it brought up all sorts of questions I asked to myself, which is why I'm posting it here.
I guess the question is "where does racism begin and end?"
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