Racism Is Wrong

There is something about a post I saw on Facebook that just bothers me so I feel I have to write about it. There is no doubt in my mind that racism is wrong.
RACISM :
: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

 I saw this post on Facebook and at first glance, it seems sound.

We can disagree on many things & still remain friends. Racism isn't one of them. #Period 100

But right from the start it didn't feel right to me. And that is why I want to talk about it. I had that same feeling some years ago when I first ran across this question on Facebook: When did you decide to be straight?  It implies without saying so that God made Gays the way they are. That it is not a choice.  Yet homosexuality is a sexual sin as is adultery. So I compare it to another sexual sin. Adultery,  when did I decide to be an adulterer?  There it is not looking so innocent. I had a choice when adultery presented itself to me. I acted on it and it became easier and easier to excuse it. I had that same feeling when I saw the statement about racism. Am I a closet racist and don't know it, is that why it gave me that sickening feeling that something wasn't right about that statement. Once again Racism is wrong.  But does that mean when someone thinks Trump is a racist and I don't think he is, we cannot be friends?  I remember when Obama first ran for president if you disagreed with Obama's politics than you were racist. I don't think it ever happened with a candidate before that if you disagreed with him then you were racist. This almost feels like it falls in the same bucket as your truth my truth.  I don't know if I am over analyzing this or not but something with that statement strikes me as wrong. I am not sure I can really put my finger on it. In the south, the racism that exists between Black and White occasionally raises its ugly head and I do feel it is a spiritual problem in nature. It would seem prejudice is closely associated with racism. We all have prejudices. It was just a feeling when I first read that statement that bothered me. I am not sure I explain it well. Often we hear racism used when we disagree with someone like Trump when everything else fails he is a racist and perhaps it is seeing that used as a catchall that causes my feeling that all is not well with that statement. It is not used just against Trump but many conservatives as well. When we disagree with a leftist position we are racist. I think perhaps that is what causes the uneasy feeling with that statement. God is not racist and in His sight we are all the same. It is sin that is the root of racism.   I think writing this down has helped me to understand that feeling I got when I read that statement.  IF racism is systemic in our nation it is because sin is systemic. So perhaps I should shut out all sinners also? That I know is not right because God reaches out to all sinners. Loves the sinner and hates the sin. I think I am really beginning to understand why it didn't feel right.  God bless, LVZ.