I’m really getting tired of the notion that only white people can be racists. To that end, I present you with the dictionary definition of the term “racism”, from dictionary.reference.com…

rac·ism    (rā’sĭz’əm)  Pronunciation Key
n.  

1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

rac’ist adj. & n.

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Now that that’s out of the way, tell me where the “white” or Caucasian race is mentioned. You don’t see it in the definition of “racism” as given by the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, do you? If you did, then wouldn’t that be an example of the second definition listed?

Here’s a question for you. How many people buy and sell stocks each day? Isn’t it reasonable to assume that there are millions of people in the market and that on any given day hundreds of thousands of them are making trades? I don’t ever actually see any statistics on that. Nevertheless, headlines like this one leave me scratching my head…

“Stocks dive on belief global recession is at hand”

Who determined the reason why stocks “dived”? The market isn’t even closed yet, and stocks appeared to rebound at least for a while. In fact, for the last several days, stocks have alternately gone up and down with wild swings. It seems to me that the “analysts” that write these headlines have a vested interest in bad news.