As a white person I have benefitted mightily from institutionalised racism.  As a white male I have benefitted from the institutionalised sexist prejudices.  I owe my relative wealth, income personal safety and comfortable position to these institutionalised prejudices.   I am complicit, passively complicit is allowing this to continue.

Mark Sawyer writing in the Sydney Morning Herald asked “how racist are you” and tried to excuse racist behaviour suggesting racist comments were, at worst, just a bit stupid, but in reality the targets of these comments were at fault for taking them seriously.  This argument was countered by Ruby Hamad, speaking  from her own experience saying “You’re probably more racist than you think.”  She presented 6 well known excuses for racism and demonstrated how seriously racist they each were.  The sixth is a wonderful uTube sketch and it is to that that PC directs you now – in just three minutes comedian Aamer Rahman demolishes the “Reverse Racism” excuse.  Here it is:
Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) – Reverse Racism

Post Script: Commedian Seve Coogan echoes Hamad’s comments in a piece about Top Gear presenters racist slur on Mexicans.

“Comedy can’t always be safe, and sometimes entertainers need to challenge social orthodoxies. But ‘saying the unsayable’ is different from simply recycling offensive cliches about Mexicans”
and
“There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. Put simply, in comedy, as in life, we ought to think before we speak.”
Well worth a read.