The war of semantics has overshadowed the rising tempers among special interest minority groups. In an effort to diffuse or whitewash (look it up if you're inclined to infer racist overtones) the growing divide between communities in the United States, talking heads have come up with another 'softening' term for plain old racism. By employing this newspeak term, "racialism," pundits seek to deflect from identifying their remarks as obviously racist. How is that done? They seem to believe that inserting the "ial" into the word gives them thin cover to assert that they are just necessarily distinguishing between people of varied color. Not so. They are attempting to conceal their own inability to measure individuals by characteristics other than outward appearance. They are still lumping people together by skin color, which is the core of a racist attitude.

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