Passing the 'Racism' test

What is racism?

Whooooboy... that can be a tough one. Over the years I have come to my personal definition as being "Making decisions or forming opinions about people based in majority on skin color or race, with little regard to reality". That definition has served me well for quite a while, but I'm always looking to make it better.

How to test a situation for racism? Another toughie.... but here's one of my tests:
Take out the words in the conversation that are tagged by race, and switch them with their opposites. If the whole meaning of the piece changes, then it was racist to start with.

I can tell you this test has started some large arguments, as many people who consider themselves anti-racist turn into full blown hate spewing bigots when their personal believes and/or gravy train is challenged.

Lets look at this example............ Here is the original article, and here is my 'tested' version:

PHILADELPHIA - The city's embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 white men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.

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Sylvester Johnson, who is white, says white men have a duty to protect more vulnerable residents. He wants each volunteer to pledge to work three hours a day for at least 90 days.

"It's time for Caucasian men to stand up," Johnson told the Philadelphia Daily News, which first reported the story Wednesday. "We have an obligation to protect our women, our children and our elderly. We're going to put men on the street. We're going to train them in conflict resolution."

The program's backers include Dennis Reynolds, a former White Brotherhood official who has been hired by police departments in Detroit, Syracuse, N.Y., and other cities to conduct community-sensitivity training.

Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city, has nearly 1.5 million residents, 44 percent of them white. It has notched 294 homicides this year. More than 80 percent of the slayings involve knives, and most involve young white males.

I just took an excerpt of the original article and changed a few words to pose it from a different racial viewpoint.

Now, I'm not making any statements at all about the efforts or goals of the Philly police chief. I wish him the best of luck in supporting his rat infested corrupt society as it crumbles into one of the largest slums ever known to human kind.
(Look, I just don't like cities, ok?)

With a few simple replacements of race tagged words, the whole meaning of the piece changes. What was clearly a call for community policing instead becomes a racially charged article dividing a community.

The test shows it was a racist piece to start with, based on my philosophy.

Am I wrong? I'd love to hear how and why. Is my personal philosophy wrong?
It's open for debate....