Background: Racism as a Phenomenon The phenomenon of racism has been on the global agenda for quite a while, and it is gaining increasingly large amounts of attention due to the rise in the globalization process and the enhancement of diversity levels all over the world. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of the proponents of equality, racism persists in the contemporary environment, thus, setting the relationships between the representatives of different ethnicities centuries back and preventing people from developing the relationships based on equality compromise, and understanding. The phenomenon of racism does not stand any criticism as the principle of a social hierarchy form all ethical frameworks, including Kantian and Utilitarian philosophies since it undermines the very basis of inherent worth as it is dictated by the Categorical Imperative and at the same time defies the idea of contributing to the benefit of all stakeholders as required by the principles of Utilitarianism. Therefore, racism as the principle of building relationships between people must be rejected as the phenomenon that is inherently alien to the very concept of fair treatment and the common good. By refuting the phenomenon of racism, one will be able to build the relationship based on trust, acceptance, and compromise, therefore, opening oneself to the idea of tolerance and diversity. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s View of Extrinsic Racism The presence of racism as the idea of discriminating against people based on their racial, ethnic, or national identity is appalling. However, the very notion of racism is rather ambiguous; particularly, Appiah (May, 2017) stresses that racism as a phenomenon may have neutral connotations in the sense of identifying one’s race and the key characteristics thereof (Kallen, 2016). Appiah (Barr, 2014) specifies the brand of racism that he defines as extrinsic (Barton, 2015). According to the definition provided by the author, extrinsic racism implies an uninhibited aggression toward the representatives of other races (May, 2017). Therefore, Appiah views extrinsic racism as the attempt at attacking one based on one’s ethnic, racial, national, or any other type of identity, which means that extrinsic racism must be deemed as unacceptable. Obligation to End Racism Due to Its Deplorable Consequences Even though Appiah makes it quite clear that racism as a phenomenon is neutral, and it is mostly extrinsic racism that needs to be addressed, it is necessary to subvert the very concept of racism as a notion. One might argue that it is necessary to distinguish between different races and cultures so that the principles of multicultural communication could be promoted, and that the unique characteristics of all ethnicities, nationalities, and races could be recognized. While the specified statement is true, racism has very little to do with the actual acknowledgment of intracultural differences and, instead, is rooted deeply in intercultural misunderstandings and cross-cultural conflicts. In its contemporary understanding, racism implies the domination of one race over another, with drastic consequences for the latter, including not only the threat of people being ostracized and their righ