Okay so for whomever decided to say black people are racist heres a little lesson for you. Black people CANNOT be racist and Im going to show you why. Reverse racism is a myth. Racism is privilege and power, you must possess both to be racist. For instance, white people benefit from privilege and power when they aren’t arrested for drug crimes at disproportionate rates, while black people experience racism when they’re arrested, and sentenced, for the same crimes. This reflects a racialized power imbalance in the justice system. People of color talking about white people don’t occupy positions of privilege or power. Therefore, they cannot be racist. Racism is structural, not personal. Not to mention that anger is a legitimate response to the oppression that black people face on a day to day basis. More importantly, insisting that people of color need to be nice about the way they talk about racism is, in fact, racist. Now keep in mind black people can be prejudice but prejudice and racism are not the same thing.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:05:18 +0000
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