I have been wanting to post something on this for a while and this morning I finally received the necessary motivation.  I was watching a news story about a GAP ad that had to be pulled down because it was deemed to be RACIST.  Please, take your time to click the link.  When you look at that picture is RACISM the first thing that crosses your mind?  

 

We are actively debating in another thread whether or not it is Gender biased to not want a heterosexual grown man to be able to freely walk into the women's room.  

 

I just watched a clip on Yahoo news about Valerie Jarett, a senior adviser to POTUS convening a group of private and public sector leaders to combat sexism and gender stereotypes in children's toys...  

 

Don't get me wrong, I find sexism, racism, or any other kind of discrimination wrong and offensive, i say this as a person of color who has been arrested and falsely accused of a felony for no other reason than the melanin content of my skin.  

 

At the same time, as someone who pretends to be objective on the weekend I can't help but to think that this is a society being run by a group of people who are used to an academic system that just hands out gold stars every time they can use the word sexism, racism, colonialism, fascism or crony capitalism in a sentence to rip this country!

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