My point is that racism towards black people is considered so bad due to the effects that this prejudice had upon their lives. It was not just name calling and the like but there was actual discrimination in the country. Now the country has changed and if anything there now seems to be positive discimination as opposed to any real negative prejudice. Racism is not also defined by just skin colour. Where there is racism/prejudice towards religious groups could they not just change their religion? Yes they could, but should they??? Any name calling is in principle wrong and is a type of prejudice but is there really any difference, as i have said earlier, between referring to someone as black, ginger, fat, thin, white in this day and age? The only difference may be if there is the actual intent to cause the person distress by referring to them in such a way.