Racism

 In recent times we have seen two incidents that involves making 'racist' comments.

Let us go first to Sam Kerr. I call her the female Gerd Muller as like Der bomber she scores a lot of little goals (as Helmut Schoen used to say.) Another way would be they were in the right place at the right time. She allegedly called a policeman a stupid white barstard. Now if you think calling a black  policeman s stupid black bastard is racist then she made a racist remark.

However this devalues what racism is. In this instance white is merely an adjective. She was not saying he was a bastard BECAUSE he was white.( It would be the same if the noun was black.

Racism is projecting a highly negative behaviour onto a person merely because of their colour of their skin. They are lazy workers, have poor morals, have little intellectual skills etc because of their skin colour. This leads to laws not allowing inter-raccial marriage etc.

The other incident was in a Thugby League match where a person was called a monkey. I have never heard in australia people using word monkey as a racist term. A long time I heard the term used in a thugby League match at the old sportsground involving Canterbury and south Sydney. The player involved was Merv Hicks who was known as the pale whale. 

Calling a person a monkey is undoubtedly a derogatory term however I would like it explained on how it is racist.