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Originally posted by Kyle.
girl...
you cannot be racist towards white people. they are not oppressed.
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Can blacks be racist? Of course but it will depend on how you define racism.
If you define it as “prejudice against or hatred toward another race,” then yes.
If you define it as “the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race,” then yes.
If you define it as “prejudice and discrimination rooted in race-based loathing,” then yes, again.
However, if you define racism as “group privilege by those who have a disproportionate share of society’s power,” then no they can't be.
Individual blacks can be racists at times because I feel all these definitions are at play at any given time and circumstance. However as a group blacks do not benefit from nor are they the creators of the racism most of us see today.