Racism in the United States has been a major issue ever since the colonial era and the slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed a heavy burden on all races excluding European Americans, who were privileged by law in matters of literacy, immigration, voting rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and criminal procedure. Many European ethnic groups, particularly American Jews, Irish Americans, and Eastern European and Southern European immigrants, as well as immigrants from elsewhere, suffered xenophobic exclusion and other forms of racism in American society. But, what is exactly racism? Webster's says that the English definition of racism is a belief that some races are by nature superior to others, also, discrimination based on such belief. The words racism and racist are so overused and their meaning so diluted.
A brief statement of one american citizen: "I`ve heard one black politician accuse another black politician of being a racist. Black people accuse black police officers of being racists. In modern America, racism means anything you want it to mean. If you want a job you are not qualified for, or you don't want to work at all but still want to get paid, or if you want to stop someone from doing something, or you want to punish someone for doing something, just scream racism at the top of your lungs until your lawyer gets someone to pay you to shut up."
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