Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

See here. Does anybody take seriously a charge of racism? The charge is so often made that it has lost whatever force it once had. It doesn't help that the charge is almost never backed up by evidence. Many years ago, one of my neighbors said, ever so casually, that President George W. Bush is a racist. It had never occurred to me that Bush was a racist, so I asked him for the basis of his opinion. He refused to provide any reason or evidence. It was just obvious to him that Bush was a racist, and he seemed perturbed that I didn't share his opinion. We haven't talked to one another since.