text: Mr. Martin, your hairsplitting about what's racism versus garden variety bigotry is a red herring, and a harmful one at that.  It's all racism Mr. Martin, and it's all bad. It's reasoning such as yours that allows the dominant group to convince themselves that they're not racist because they're not burning crosses on someone's lawn. Yet it discounts the other subtle and not so subtle forms of racism that people engage in every day. You acknowledge in your article the many egregious things Trump has done, yet you refuse to characterize him as racist. For some reason, his housing discrimination, characterization of Mexicans as rapists and his comment that African Americans have "nothing left to lose" are not racist? By your standard, nothing is racist. Your blindness to racism IS racism. Burning crosses or no.