"Scientific Racism" still exists?

                         The link above is the Comedian David Hofstetter, who talks about "racism" and the lessons on the topic he learned as a child. He touches on a large number of problems within "Racism". Hofstetter says "I tell people i'm Jewish, there like, no man you must be Irish, you've got red hair!". Within this day and time when we talk about "race" most people will immediately imagine someone of the "visible minority". However, in Hofstetter's initial quotation, he explains that his religion is Judaism. Quickly the person he is talking to, he explain, that in disbelief his convocational partner says he couldn't be Jewish he must be Irish because he has red hair.
              The quotation at hand is expressing both a stereotype and, well ignorance. Hofstetter explains that his conversational partner has mistaken his religion for a race and continues to stereotype people with red hair must be, and only are from Ireland. This is an example of "racism" going outside of what the social concept of "race" is.
              The quotation is a prime example of a person that is not a "visible minority" experiencing "racism". This relates back to the articles we discussed in class about what is "white". This specific example is quite interesting because this reflects back on our class workshop about Golberg's "Racial Knowledge "(page 154). Where Golberg shows us that "Race" and what is "White" has changed over the years. The fact his conversation partner insisted that he must be Irish because he has red hair shows that to that person, all red haired people must be Irish. This idea goes even further into the past. Where the Irish were not considered "white". So how do you figure out an Irishman from a British man? Well do not fear, our British friends from our past has given us an explanation through Scientific Racism!

         The Irishman is on the left, with the "Anglo-Tutonic" person in the middle and the "Negro" on the right. The left picture shows a drawing of one Irishman, however it was believed that all Irish people were to have very similar facial structures and lacked any facial structures of another "race".
         The following picture is a sign that would be put up when a person was hiring for work. While your looking at this next picture, would you consider this discrimination or "racism"? And if "racism" why?

       I believe a lot of people today would defiantly argue that this is both, because racism is a certain type of discrimination; however, in todays society Irish people are considered "white".