Some things make me so angry that I can't quite find the words to communicate to you how I feel. One thing that happens to make me want to vandalize people's property is the phrase, "I'm not a racist but...", people always use this phrase just before they say something that is racist.

A person uses this phrase in an attempt to hide the fact that he or she may be a bit of a bigot. Racism has a pretty bad rap these days, it is incredibly unfashionable in mainstream western culture to go about your day uttering ethnic slurs. But some people just can't help themselves and feel that they want to let us in on the prejudices that they may hold. But Sally Suburbs doesn't want to seem like a crude gal quick to judge and employ stereotypes in reference to someone's ethnic background, nationality, language or spirituality so she assures her friends, especially ones who do not share similar backgrounds, and despite the bigoted idea she is about share with them she is not a racist.

Racism itself is not the core issue here, I'm not some armchair civil rights warrior here to lecture you social injustice, you don't need me to tell you right from wrong. This is about people not connecting their perceptions of themselves and their identities with the garbage that comes out of their mouths. You can't just go about and say racist things and tell people that despite your prejudice beliefs that you are not prejudice.

I mean, if you don't want people to think you're a bigot maybe you shouldn't talk like one. Or we could re-publish Mein Kampf and have every chapter start with, "I don't want to sound like a racist but..."