It just gets old after awhile. In our society, we barely go three months without hearing at least something about racism. Somebody was racist or somebody accused somebody of being racist. Right now, it is beat up Don Imus day. As far as I am concerned this isn’t the first and won’t be the last ‘Let’s have a discussion on racism’ moment.

Sure, Don Imus’ remarks were uncalled for. What he said on the air was absolutely ridiculous. It was insulting for all of the rest of us to listen to. But was it really necessary to fire him?  No, let the free market do that.  Lets face it; NBC and CBS WANT public attention. It gets their companies money and that is what is needed in our open market place. So why did they fire the guy that gets them the money?

The simple answer: Americans are willing to ‘People of color’ to say insulting things about their own race (see almost ever song ever made) but not willing to let white Americans say the same thing. Ironically, the only reason why rappers can afford to say these things is because Americans buy their albums. As long as we are willing to buy music that insults Blacks, Whites, Women, etc; they will be willing to make it.

If we have reached a point in our history where we have decided that it is time to end racism, we need to stop feeding the people who fuel it. Stop listening to the Imus’ of the world; stop buying hateful rap. Stop making race something to be talked about.

Of course, this applies to diversity on the whole. You go anywhere that ‘celebrates diversity’ and take a look around. You can see information on Black culture, Asian culture, Indian culture but you will never see anything on European Culture. Similarly, you can see stuff on Islam and Hindu religions but you will never encounter stuff on Christianity or, in some cases, even Judaism.

The simplest method to solving the problem is to just stop talking about it. Or, if you are going to talk about it, give everyone equal spotlight.