Erin, the 'New American Webster's Dictionary' you cite apparently hasn't been updated yet to the 'New Century' version which includes this:

"prejudice against certain peoples... except whites and anyone who has more success in life than another".

Erin,

Not to worry, they were only marching against Intolerable Racism. I guess ordinary racism is tolerable. And, there is no such thing as reverse discrimination...racism is racism, regardless of who is practicing it. Some of these people have a special definition of racism, and they can't practice racism.

Neo,

I have it on the unquestionable authority of no less an expert than Jesse Jackson that it is impossible for a member of a "minority group" to be a racist.

As you seem to have noticed, words no longer have any objective or substantive meaning, but are left free to be distorted or defined by anyone to fit their own contorted linguistic gymnastics.

Thus Osama, may his soul rest eternally in the boil infested entrails of a chronically incontinent camel, is free to refer to us as terrorists while Harry Reid plays background accompanyment on the bass psaltry.

If you're interested I'll send you a copy of the CD.

Erin, don't you know that Black community cannot be racist? That's what diversity training teaches us.

You're scheduled for the 1:00pm class, be there or else the ACLU thought police will arrive at your door soon.

I am jealous and angry.
I wanted to write a letter on this subject, but chose another. This one was so easy.

This is irony and hypocrisy at it's best -- a demonstration against racism urging patronization at only black-owned store.

There are a few things I would like to address. First, racism is wrong no matter who practices it. Second, I would like to address this quote from above: "words no longer have any objective or substantive meaning, but are left free to be distorted or defined by anyone to fit their own contorted linguistic gymnastics." Noah Webster being the language dictator that he was sought to standardize and make rigid the English language. New words are added everyday and the meaning of some words changes as well and other words fall by the wayside. So, yes words are malleable by the very nature of language. If you want to get semantic about the whole thing, there you are. Third, I think what the Reverend Jesse Jackson was trying to say is that if a minority is racist it has no "substantive" effect on the majority as the majority wields the power. The point of sending people to black owned businesses for a day is to draw attention to those businesses because most do not have the media machine or support from the majority community to make a dent in the marketplace no matter how good their product is. Without any research name one black owned chain or for that matter one minority owned chain that originated in the U.S. Don't worry, I'll wait.

I really am unaware of the race of the owners of businesses I frequent.

There is one exception. A wonderful black woman owns the B&A Thrift Store at 5303 W Market Street.

She is almost always at the store and talking with her is like a breath of fresh air.