I have no idea if I am a racist or not. Poland is mostly a homogeneous country with people better falling into a stereotypical categories of white catholics. Polish people are often called racists but that stems from the fact that we´re not taught or used to deal with people of different hue. Yes, I imagine a black person would most probably be stared at, probably treated as a weirdo in most cases. In extreme cases there might be violence - I remember when I was in secondary school International House would not bring coloured teachers for fear of their being assaulted. That´s Poles in general - either you fit or you´re persecuted.
These days as our borders have become more open things change - now it´s a "fad" to taste some black coffee as I´ve heard young people say. Polish women often go for affairs with black guys as they consider it a kind of social nobilitation. No wonder an African guy had no problem infecting about 12 Polish women with HIV - they´d screw any black guy to show their open-mindness.
Personally I don´t care what colour people are but I did feel a tad awkward surrounded by Asian and African looking staff in hospital. I´d never have sex with a black guy because I don´t find them attractive - if that makes me a racist, apparently I am one. Yet, I´d have no problem working or being friends with people of colour.
I wonder what accounts for the fact that most people in welfare lines are coloured, even in countries that provide equal chances for all people (US is definitely not one of them as they either have most radical racist organisations like New Order or introduce programmes discriminatory for non-coloured people).
If we based on as strict rules as say Catwoman bases on when determining whether someone is sexist or not I´d say you are a racist. Some of the examples that you give such as categorically not finding black people sexy are proving this point. If you ask me what I think about Halle Berry, I´d say she is probably one of the sexiest persons in the world... Anything that categorically singles out a certain race is a tad racist. Our intention must be removing the roots of racism.
i bet they criticize it 24/7 esp. ros and alameda 