Just to be clear about this, it's not really about anything in particular, other than an observation about some language-related matters. That is the misuse and abuse of words.
What is racism? In the sense of being a noun, it means
A belief that members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race - especially so as to distinguish that race as being inferior or superior to another race or races.
Which brings up another question, what is race?
A social concept, where a group of people share similar distinct physical characteristics.
Which leaves us pretty much nowhere, because how can one set of similar distinct physical characteristics be inferior or superior to some other set of similar distinct physical characteristics? If some group has longer legs and another larger lungs. If some group has curly hair and another straight. Why would being of some color or shade (yellow, brown, white, black, red, pink, dark, light) or from some area (continent, section, place; Caucasian, Asian, African, Scandinavian, Pacific Island, Atlantic Ocean, Antarctica) make one of those better or worse than another. No, some grouping of arbitrary criteria isn't any more or less superior or inferior to another grouping of arbitrary criteria.
If we take some endeavor (say, NASCAR driving) and then look at who is doing the bulk of it to create a group with a name describing in some way its members (say, Rednecks) we might be able to then suggest the reason rednecks are NASCAR drivers is because they're superior at it, and other groups with less people doing that endeavor are inferior at it. Yet there are other types of competitive sports involving vehicles, so how about F1 drivers, we can make the same sort of statement, suggesting that Europeans are superior at that because numbers of participants. But then we're down whining about which sort of driving is better or worse, and if there are other endeavors where the two groups are equally good or bad and not superior or inferior comparatively to each other. Or even asking if being able to "drive cars fast" is important to argue about. The whole idea is as stupid as this paragraph.
Race is an entirely ridiculous concept to begin with. Your skin color or the size of your face or the length of your nose or the shape of your brain doesn't do anything except perhaps at best make you personally (in that trait) better or worse at doing something. Say, if you live where the air is thin, and your lungs are bigger, you probably have an advantage at running that somebody who is from where the air is thick and has smaller lungs; unless they are better practiced at running, or have stronger legs, or more endurance just because they do. Or they have an affinity at building tables made of wood and you don't.
In common usage though, what we might refer to as a race is actually more to the point an ethnicity or a nationality.
But by the heading of race, and being superior to another race (say, by shade, that as a whole, brown people are better than pink people) it's quite possible people (who are brown) living on the US side of a town are superior to people (who are pink) living on the Canadian side of a town Again, ridiculous even in concept.
Now, let's say that some people live in New Mexico on the southern border of that state. Say also that some people (who some are otherwise exactly the same and who some are instead vastly different) live in Chihuahua on the northern border of that state. If the people in Chihuahua are against the people in New Mexico immigrating (either legally or illegally) then how can that be racist, or even racially motivated? It might be nationalistic, or it might be ethnic, or it could be political. But racist?
Yes, of course, some of the people could have racial reasons for not wanting anyone from the other side of the border coming over. In the end result though, the social matters between the two groups is about location, and about residency, not about anything else when it comes to the big picture.
It's like suggesting that the two sides of Punjab (state versus province) are racially separated, when it's far more likely the differences are at best religious and political.
But you know what, I hate people who are older than I am.
How racist is that!
