Is this racist, does my teacher have a right to punish me for this?

[Nouw]

There's probably some mild form of racism hidden in there and having said that, it's nothing to fuss over. Everyone's a little racist. Personally, I'm not sure but I feel that it's leaning towards preference and doesn't have any negative thought behind it. As long as the a latter is true, you don't have to worry about a thing.

Racism is about hatred of other races, not noting certain trends or using a certain word. "That person is Black" is not racist.

By popular definition? Of course not, and it's quite nice for people to use the popular one as that stops a fair amount of racism which is a plus. However, you've forgotten that the literal definition of racism includes discrimination. As long as you can't call a white person black, there will be no equality and racism will live on.

Note:This is not something to fuss over at all. Someone making a racist remark like this doesn't suddenly make them a bad person. It's not negative at all and to be frank, it should be known that it is racism and left at that. It's racist, but barely. This is the lowest amount of racism that can happen and the opposite of extreme-racists.

It's what I think and if you want to think that calling someone is black is racist, suit yourself.

 

[Chalacachaca]

A bunch of replies, but here's one more telling you that you're not being racist at all just because you find more attractive one skin colour over the other.
I find skin colour to be a bit silly sometimes, I once took a survey abroad and I was being classified as "white" until I was asked from where I was. I told the girl that I'm from Venezuela and then poof, suddenly I'm "latino".

 

[silexh]

If that's racist, we should all give up now. And racial intolerance is something else entirely. I really don't get your teacher.

Also racial intolerance ≠ racism.

Racial intolerance is not being tolerant of other races. In this context saying: "Nobody should date anything other than a white person". You won't tolerate that.

Racism would be: "I won't date anything other than a white person". Here you are discriminating.

The problem is "I won't date anything other than a white person" has the same result as "I wont date [person] because I'm not attracted to him/her. Actually, I'm only attracted to white people". They have the same effect (you don't date anything other than white people), but in the second case you really can't help it, and it's not because of hate.

 

[rukastar]

I don't think this seems racist, I mean what if you prefer asians to whites (in terms of cuteness or something).

I think this is total bs.