Bringing blacks into an argument about race

The Miley Cyrus incident where she and her white friends imitated her token Asian friend, sprung up the issue of it being racist.

Many of the comments said it wasn't racist, and would often bring in blacks as if blacks had something to do with it. Some Asians did say it would race and would also bring in blacks sayin that if they were imitating blacks Miley would be in trouble.

There is a problem with this theory:

1. It is taking away from the discussion at hand, blacks are not anywhere involved in this issue
2. Things like this have happened to blacks before and many whites have sat their and decided to say a racist issue was not racist, so that argument the Asians had is invalid.

The picture could be racist and may not be. It really depends, if you are not Asian you will quickly dismiss it, but if you are Asian you may question it more than likely.

The deciding factors to really decide if it was racist would be as followed:

1. How did the basis of doing this come about? What made them want to do it in the first place?
2. How is the relations in the group usually?

Although Miley refused to apologize for it, she would have been better off at least admitting it was in poor taste. For all we know there is an inside joke as the basis of this picture, and we all know that its hard to understand something that may clearly look racist to us because we are not a part of that inside joke to understand the real nature of it.

But in the end, people need to leave blacks out of it. Stop scapegoating blacks even in an issue that doesn't even pertain blacks. Not to mention when you try to use blacks as your argument for the racism and intolerance, it is being unfair by acting like people would equally say that it was racist of someone to do such and such as the Mizzou incident and the Gates issue both prove how whites will clearly deny blatant racism against blacks.

Stay on the subject at hand, if you can't do that then maybe you actually have no argument.