Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged. ' Racism is about the power to treat entire groups of people as something less than human—for the benefit of that power. That’s why a Native American sports mascot is far from harmless.
. . . the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.