I don't understand "racial insensitivity" as it is defined by some in our society today.

It's clear in Scripture that everybody's equal. It's that simple.

(As a sidenote, it is truly unfortunate that Christianity has had such a huge historical role in racism and seeming hatred toward groups that weren't like they were)

But I'd like to cite two examples that confound me.

1. Rush Limbaugh. He said: "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

He got fired over that statement, because of its supposed racial insensitivity. Maybe it is, but I don't see it. The statement certainly has racial undertones but so does this one: "Byran's skin is white." Is that racist? I don't get it.

2. A David Williams wrote a column in the Barometer (OSU student newspaper) entitled "A Message from a white male to the African American community." (Williams Article)

In it he suggested that perhaps the reason the black community has struggled in this country (in the areas of poverty and crime, for instance) is because they lift up members of their communities that aren't worth lifting up.

He says, "...there is a lack of morality in the black community because African American leaders, whether Jesse Jackson or the NAACP, choose to rally around minorities who seem to have little quality characteristics about them."

Maybe I'm naive or stupid, but I don't understand what is racist about this if racism is defined as bias against a particular race on the basis of their race. He's not demeaning African Americans by pointing this out, is he? I don't think so. Elsewhere in the article he mentions that there are many fine people in the black community that would serve as wonderful role models.

He may be painting with a broad brush. Maybe he's over-generalizing. I don't know. I can't figure it out.

I don't have much experience with racism. All I know is that people are equal, and should be treated such. How this article fails to do that is beyond me at this point.