Gawker saw this before I got to it… and came to the same conclusion: Press Releases are Racist.

EPIC, a new luxury lifestyle, waterfront boutique hotel located in the heart of downtown Miami, is offering special rates for those visiting Miami to enjoy White Party Week events and festivities from November 25-30, 2009. Rates start from $119 – $249 per night, proceeds from each room booked will be donated to Care Resource.

To book, guests can visit www.epichotel.com and enter the rate code “WHITE.”

Whaa? Only party goers who are white? Maybe I’m wrong but that’s illegal. To the uninitiated (anyone who isn’t a circuit party queen) this just doesn’t scan well.

The Hotel couldn’t be reached for comment, but we imagine their response would be something like this: Puhleeeze. You know what we meant!

Oh yeah. We know.

Last night at Happy Hour we talked about all the other terms that are racist but we most people don’t think about: whitelist/blacklist, white trash, Indian Summer, Going Dutch (who hates on the Dutch?!), getting gypped (racist to Gypsies, srsly!)  red herring (anti-Norwegian) and Getting Spayed (pet-ist and also sounds like ‘spade’).

You guys – bigotry isn’t a joke – but sometimes its funny (when it’s not happening to you).