If you treat a person or judge them differently because of their race, THAT IS RACISM
--> Letting Blacks say the "n word" but judging Whites for saying it is RACIST
--> Automatically assuming that every White person is privileged, has an easy life, is guilty of enslaving Blacks is RACIST and DEROGATORY
--> White can be racist, just like Blacks or Asians or Jews or Latinos or Native Americans or Indians or Russians or _________ can be racist. Have you not seen the Holocaust, or ethnic cleansing in southeast Europe?
--> I don't buy it for ONE SECOND that a Black man with credentials or a degree will get hired less than a White man recently in jail or prison or whatever
--> Furthermore, people automatically link racism to Blacks, but other races have been subjugated in the past. Native Americans were put on reservations, the Japanese were literally put into interment camps because of their race
--> Reverse racism IS real, especially with things like affirmative action that discriminate against Whites and Asians and aid minorities like Blacks and Latinos/as to get into college more easily
--> The article basically paints Whites as racist, disgusting people who automatically hate Blacks and "need to be put in their place" WHAT KIND OF BLATANT RACISM
--> If a White person makes a joke against African Americans, it's horrible, but when a Latino makes a joke about African Americans, it's okay, because they aren't White and can't be racist?
The first few pages of this thread were a mess. This girl on tumblr can't go making her own defintions and her own race pyramid in order to justify her argument, the vast majority of dictionaries defines racism and prejudice as nearly the same thing.
In 2013, there is no institutionalized racism. Are you honestly telling me that my Black neighbors whose children ride on the same bus as me to school are having a horrible life and being discriminated against when they get more help in schools (special classes that give tutors specifically to Blacks and Latinos), easier time getting into college (affirmative action
), more financial aid when they do get in (
), etc.?
Side note: I use AA and Black interchangeably; if they can call me White, I should be able to call them Black
Side note: The N Word is NOT something that Blacks should be trying to "reclaim" from Whites - there is no pride in that word, only years of slavery. It would be like me trying to "reclaim" slurs against Jews that were used by the Nazis against my people during WWII.