The word "racism" has become a misused label in the United States.

Hello and thank you to anyone who accepts this debate. I would simply like to address the fact that society tends to label anything that remotely has to do with race or ethnicity as "racist". To clarify, the Pro (me) will be arguing that the phrase has been misused in society and is tossed around too much while the Con side can argue that the word is used correctly and is correctly applied to each scenario I bring.The definition of racism is: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. (Any dictionary says the same thing or something along the same lines)The definition of stereotype is: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thingThe overarching idea of my arguments is that racism and stereotyping are completely different.1. Police BrutalityMany people have labeled the police organization as racist because there is unfair targeting of minorities (namely African American and Hispanic). However, I believe that this is a result of stereotypes not racism. The Huffington Post points out in 2015 that the reason blacks are more likely to be arrested than white people is due to heavy policing in dense urban areas where blacks are more likely to live. This is a result of the stereotype that black people commit more crimes. Whether this is true or not is not important. Rather what we must look at is that police have long been ingrained with the idea that blacks and Hispanics commit more crimes. This isn't due to the fact that police believe that blacks and Hispanics are inferior to whites, but rather because they believe that they, in general, commit more crimes. Therefore, labeling racism onto police brutality against minorities is a misuse of the word racism.2. Trump's Muslim BanOrganizations such as Ultraviolet have been advocating the repeal of the Muslim ban on the basis that it is racist because it targets Muslims. There are few things to realize. Trump's ban is not really a Muslim ban. He may say it is and he may have said in his campaign that he would implement a MUSLIM ban, but this is not entirely true. Saudi Arabia has a very high Muslim population but was not included on the list of travel banned countries. This is most likely due to Saudi Arabia being a large exporter of oil to the United States. What we must understand is that Trump wanted to keep America safe. It may in the end, end up being horrific for the United States, but you have to give him chops for trying. This also debunks the idea that the ban was racist. Trump did not issue the ban because he believes Muslims are beneath the power of the white man; he issued it because he wants to keep Americans safe and in the past, followers of the Islamic religion have enacted terror on the United States. I hope everyone realizes that those in support of the travel ban are not anti-Muslim. Islam is a very peaceful religion and only a particular sect takes the 6th pillar too far, however because of the harm that a small sect of the Islamic religion had brung to the US and to countries world-wide, action needed to be taken. It was not because Trump is a racist person nor because this idea was "racist". The goal was to keep people safe, not to demean others.I hope that, even in such a touchy subject, that we can keep calm, argue with logic, and understand the other side even better than we do now. Thanks and have a great day :)