Black people can't be racist

[Rhapscallion Démone]

True or False?

On discrimination based on one’s color, I can only concur that blacks can be prejudicial towards whites - but not racist. What do I mean? Before I attempt to give an explanation of my argument, I first have to define words that serve as the premises: prejudice and racism. Prejudice refers to a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived group membership. Racism on the other hand refers to social actions, practices or beliefs or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other. Furthermore, racism is socio-economic, with systemic structures which promote one race’s powers over another. Socio-economic being the operative word, I am certain you will agree that black people do not have the resources to impose such oppressive structures which enforce their superiority. White people on the other hand have, and had imposed them on blacks for over four centuries of slavery and colonialism. Black people can be prejudiced, but not racist.

Me personally I don't like to even use the word prejudice anymore because it implies a lack of experience and knowledge. I don't believe that black people can be racist but I do believe that we can be resentful

re·sent·ful
/rəˈzentf(ə)l/

adjective

1. feeling or expressing bitterness or indignation at having been treated unfairly.
   "he was angry and resentful of their intrusion"
   
   
   

 

[DonB90]

Black people aren't naturally born racists.
Typical don't grow up in households where parents overtly talk negatively about other races for no apparent reason.

Can't say the same for everyone else

 

[Unknown Poster]

What power does the average black person have to make the average white person's life difficult in this country?

Black people are 12.6% - 14% of America's population.
Black people control less than 1% of this nation's wealth.
The US senate has had over 2,000 members and only 11 of them have been Black.
Black people don't own or control institutions in the same frequency that white people do.

Racism is defined as prejudice plus power.
Black people do not have control of enough wealth resources or have the population numbers to enforce racism.

Therefore black people cannot be racist only prejudiced

Us calling white people cacs isn't going to hurt them at all. They still control damn near everything.

 

[Dak Pickscott]

black people could never benefit from racism and use it as a tool in the way that white people use it

 

[Billy Ocean]

Yes we can be racist.

You not Black.

We already know white people can be racist.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Yes we can be racist.

Please tell me how black people have enough power to make the average white or non black person's life difficult the way white people do.

Are there black employers refusing to hire black the white people and throwing their resumes out based on their Anglicized names they can't pronounce?

Are there black police officers planning drugs and guns in white people's cars during routine traffic stops?

There are white people going to black banks and black bankers are giving them predatory loans with outlandish interest rates or just not approving them for loans at all?

Are there black politicians gerrymandering white neighborhoods so they can't vote in the next election?

 

[Regular Developer]

I'm a little confused about the socio-economic portion of the definition. I acknowledge we don't really have control over anything so we can't enforce racism systemically. But when people call someone out for being racist, it isn't always some person in power. If a homeless white person calls me the n word, he'd still be racist, even tho he has no way, other than violence, of doing anything to me. That's why I think we can be racist

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Im not racist but fukk cacs and everyone who worships and kisses they ass

 

[Dak Pickscott]

I'm a little confused about the socio-economic portion of the definition. I acknowledge we don't really have control over anything so we can't enforce racism systemically. But when people call someone out for being racist, it isn't always some person in power. If a homeless white person calls me the n word, he'd still be racist, even tho he has no way, other than violence, of doing anything to me. That's why I think we can be racist

why do you assume that a racist homeless white person would have no way other than violence to do harm to you?

 

[Unknown Poster]

black people could never benefit from racism and use it as a tool in the way that white people use it

Exactly.

 

[LuuqMaan]

If a black man has a business with majority black employees and start to assert ‘power’ or discriminate in his business against non black employees, would that be racist?

Technically speaking that’s ‘power’, is it not?

 

[Unknown Poster]

If a black man has a business with majority black employees and start to assert ‘power’ or discriminate in his business against non black employees, would that be racist?

Technically speaking that’s ‘power’, is it not?

Black businesses are not everywhere in America and the majority of businesses in America are not owned by us so I don't even understand the point of this hypothetical.

White people have weaponized racism in every single way and in every Avenue of life. when you put these small shoes hypotheticals together next to each other, it just doesn't hold any weight.

There is very little comparable that black folks can do compared to white people when it comes to enforcing racism.

 

[LordDeathwatch]

I'm a little confused about the socio-economic portion of the definition. I acknowledge we don't really have control over anything so we can't enforce racism systemically. But when people call someone out for being racist, it isn't always some person in power. If a homeless white person calls me the n word, he'd still be racist, even tho he has no way, other than violence, of doing anything to me. That's why I think we can be racist

What? He's a member of the "ruling" ethnicity and as such has the benefit of being entitled to all the privilege that entails and has since birth. That same homeless man could have you (presumably in a higher social and economic standing) arrested, killed, or experience economic or social hardship in the right setting purely based on his skin color.

He can accomplish all this without violence because he was born with this inherent advantage due to systemic racism. You, literally, could never. I don't understand why that's so hard for some people to understand.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

If you believe that one or more 'races' are superior/inferior to others, you are a 'racist'.​

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

What? He's a member of the "ruling" ethnicity and as such has the benefit of being entitled to all the privilege that entails and has since birth. That same homeless man could have you (presumably in a higher social and economic standing) arrested, killed, or experience economic or social hardship in the right setting purely based on his skin color.

He can accomplish all this without violence because he was born with this inherent advantage due to systemic racism. You, literally, could never. I don't understand why that's so hard for some people to understand.

Exactly
a random homeless cracker has more power/authority/sway at their disposal than the average black person minding his business.