Racial Sensitivity

America is a very racially sensitive country. It's great when openly racism is generally unacceptable with the exception of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. But there should be a fine line beteween self-awareness and self-censorship. So here's a story.
Yesterday on a basketball forum there was a post about Jemery Lin. At one point people started to tell jokes about him. One guy said something like "if he can't make the team he can still be the team accountant". And this is when things turned bad. People just ganged up on him because it's racist.
Is the joke racist? I don't know. Call me an idiot but I honestly don't see the connection between Asian/Chinese/Taiwanese and accountant. I mean it's true many Asians are in the finance sector but it's more of an accomplishment rather than old scar like Asians being restaurant workers. Moreover being an accountant really isn't that much of an Asian thing, Asians prefer to be docters and dentists, nor that accountant is an Asian dominated profession, so calling it racism or stereotype is at least groundless. Plus Lin did receive his econ degree from Harvard. So I posted a comment saying take it easy on this guy, I'm Asian and I think that's funny. Well, it didn't end in the way I wanted.
To my surprise, within seconds somebody jumped on me. To make it even a bigger surprise, the person was an Asian. I mean normally Asians are racist but nevertheless don't buy this Jesse Jackson style hoax. So this guy jumped in and educated me how bad it was because if it's racist to one minority it's racism against all minorities. But again, like others who bashed the poor jokester he didn't even bother to explain why calling a Harvard ecno graduate could be a team account has to be racist.
Here's my take on this childrish crusade. First of all I don't believe a colorblind society. People have different cultural backgrounds. How often do we see an Amish IT engineer? There are economic differences. Many Chinese and Indians came to the U.S. for higher education, and get advanced degrees from prestigious universities, thus their kids have a higher chance to achive academic success. And there are physical differences. African Americans generally have better atheism, and readheads get sunburned easily. These differences exist and will alway exist in one way or another. People will make calls based on these facts, like you pass the ball to a strange black guy at a pick up game, or ask a math question to an Asian student, or ask the redhead for sunscreen, and you might never ask the Amish guy to fix your internet. Of couse you don't always make the right call, but this is how we human think: we predict things based on our experiences. We can't pretend these things don't exist. And as long as we don't have a malice intent, and we fix the mistake everytime we make a bad call, we are fine.
Now going back to the original joke. Just becaue it might be racist so you think it has to be racist is stupid, especially when the possible racism is far from obvious and there's easily another take on the joke. And any chastising based on this groundless accusation is just as bad as racism. It's an inquisition. The history of Spanish Inquistion tells this over sensitivity is from the victim attitude. Just like the Spanish Inquistion brought nothing but disasters, such racial over sensitivity only feeds race-baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. And as long as those race-baiters exist, there will be no racial equality and harmony.