The title is what I heard from my friend who lives in America. Her husband went to a school to talk about racism. When he asked the students to share their experience of racism, one girl cried and said she felt that she was being assumed as a racist because she is white.
My friend, a Taiwanese emigrating to America, has her share of being discriminated against and thought the girl's reaction was just hilarious.
"How can she cry over being assumed as a racist and think this is more traumatic than the real-life experience of discrimination?" My friend told me. I agreed with her, and pointed out if the girl thinks people assume her racist purely because she is caucassian, she is probably a true racist since she simplifies the issue, focuses on racists' races instead of their ways of thinking and behaviors. Thus, if she is criticized of being a racist she wouldn't contemplate about the bases of this criticism to decide if it is unfounded but only throws up her hands in the air and despairs that she is being misunderstood because she is so "unfortunately" to be a white.
That said, the issue of racism is overwhelmingly complex and it often exists deeply in people's unconciousness. So, if anyone asks me about racism(who would ask, I wonder), my honest answer is I wouldn't guarantee I am definitely not a racist, and all I can do is to work hard to dig out and rid of any racist thinking hidden in me.