Racist

Is some action racist?

Racist was first defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition, 1989) as "[t]he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race"; the same dictionary termed racism a synonym of racialism: "belief in the superiority of a particular race".

Do the following actions or items exhibit racialism?

• The Dixieland Flag
• The U.S. Civil War
• A monument to an abolitionist
• A monument to any person who owned a slave
• Slavery
• Anti-slavery
• A historical event
• Reference to skin color
• Racial hiring quotas

A key element of racism is superiority.  Are the following expressions of racial superiority?

• A race was once slaves
• Past injustices indicate a race should be treated exceptionally well
• Violence and protest
• Suppression of words and thoughts not clearly racist
• Statements of past hardships

Galatians 5:1, NASB: "It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery."

And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. Mark 9:35