If you listen to negro street thug rapper 'music' in which the word ****** is habitually used are you a racist?
If you inadvertently hear someone use the 'word' and don't attack the speaker immediately are you a racist?
According to the Jew hating assholes at the NYT you are.
Read the column the New York Times didn’t want you to see
Last weekend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a piece criticizing the rationale behind the forced ouster of Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr., but it was never published. Stephens to…nypost.com
Racism is either a frivolous charge, a juvenile invective, aimed at any you don’t like, or an actual crime that involves injuring someone…not just their feelings.
If you function as the Nazis and Bolsheviks did, any thought crime must be punished. If you are an American, you allow a difference of opinion: it is our birthright under the first amendment.
You're right it isn't against the law to be a racist.
Nor is claiming such a valid excuse for failure.
Another significant characteristic that holds blacks back is not honoring those who have succeeded....the 'acting white,' 'Uncle Tom,' thing.
John McWorter has written about it as well.
As does Joseph Phillips
Clarence Page of the Chicago Trib say this on one of the Sunday shows, how blacks will pull down one who succeeds.
"Crab mentality, sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket, is a phrase that describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you." The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs. Individually, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they grab at each other in a useless "king of the hill" competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise"
Crab mentality - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia