In this day and age, the majority of people will define racism as being discriminatory actions taken against a certain race or group of people.  However, is it possible that racism has evolved so drastically that we can no longer recognize it within society and even within ourselves?  Professor Jack Dovidio, of the University of Connecticut, adresses this possibility in his research:

“Contemporary racism is not conscious, and it is not accompanied by dislike, so it gets expressed in indirect, subtle ways,” (taken from: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html)

This is a very intriguing concept that actually makes a lot of sense.  People today are too caught up in trying not to be racist, that they make themselves more racist that they would be by just acting normally.  If someone is overly positive and kind to a person of another race, then they are being racist, but just in a different way than traditionally thought.  Unfortunately, until everyone in the world can look at each other and not see anything other than another human being, then racism will still exist.  If being positive can also be considered racist, then what direction do we have to go in order stop being racist? Not do anything?