Is It Racism?

Is it racism? Prejudices?  Or is it the manifestation of resentment and envy? When one class of people receives a benefit from a government, school or business that another class does not get, resentment and envy will build in the class of have-nots, even if the benefit is compensatory to the haves. This resentment will eventually boil over into anger and rage if the have-nots are not given equal to or greater than benefit, or unless the benefit to the haves is stopped.

The have-nots move into action after they have reached their boiling point of discontent. This is the irrational stage. Verbal, vocal measures are pursued first followed by physical and violent measures next. Both verbal and physical measures are aggressive and are aimed at hurting the haves and those who made the benefit available to them.

This discontentment and acts of aggression from the have-nots over the haves is what many people call racism. It isn’t.

True racism is the belief that one’s race is superior. Prejudice is an unreasonable or unfavorable opinion of another group of people. Neither racism nor prejudice are rooted in resentment and envy.

Many social and political problems are a result of resentment and envy but are erroneously identified and treated as issues of racism.

Bill Hitchcock