Quote Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy View Post
It's not directly, but that doesn't mean its neutral in its impact there. People still label, themselves and others. The point is that white people rarely think of people, themselves or others, with a "white" label. But by and large they do think of non-white people with a label. But even the most individualist and non-labely black person is not going to be able to go through life without being affected (negatively) by other peoples' use of the "black" label.
Racists using labels does not mean non racists need to become racist and labelled to make up for it too.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
But that's comparing apples and oranges. You find racism in the ceteris paribus comparisons. How does the wealthy black westerner compare to the wealthy white westerner? How does the impoverished black guy in a Paris banlieue compare to the impoverished white guy there?
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