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Originally Posted by nyanna
Just how can a black person be racist? We don't have the power. And according to this site, most of us are unemployed and on welfare so just how are we a threat to you?
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Racism is NOT having a position of power over one ethnic group. It is the belief and cultural perpetuation that one race is superior, INHERENTLY, over the other. This gets lost on black people who play the card all the time.
#1 - White being superior to Black is NOT perpetuated in today's society. Any instances of it are fringe and there are just as many black fringe racists as white. As well as other ethnic groups.
Stereotypes attack themselves to racist ideals subjectively. For example, a black woman may say "Oh, latina women have that GOOD hair"... Pointing out that latinas have a trait that blacks may or may not have and having the perception it is BETTER is being self loathing.. That is a form of RACISM. So blacks are guilty of it as much as anybody else. And this holds true for any race!
Also, when somebody makes the claim that White America oppresses a Black America through legislation with the Rockerfeller laws and underfunding to the schools in urban developments etc etc... just becomes an ugly "push off" of accountability. It's how a whole culture has absolved themselves of wrongdoing.
And there is no end point...because when is it?
Who says when the end point is reached? BLACK people do....
Egalitarianism is a false premise and there is no such thing as "equality".
Black America is afforded the same opportunities as everybody else. To deny that is being willfully ignorant. Not many will open themselves up to the position that they WANT a double standard. By doing so you are subscribing to the burdening of people, that had nothing to do with the impact of a past tragedy, by default.
Now, has White America oppressed Black Americans for hundred of years? Yes, they absolutely have. Was it wrong? Sure. Who would ever deny that? Only a blatant, bigoted racist. And there are plenty of those.
But...remember this. In today's society Black America would never be enslaved like their predecessors were. Contemporary slavery has morphed into wage slavery and everybody gets grouped in. But aside from "racism" being chalked up to the "position of power" and used by those who want to have a monopoly on the context of it to say it is a sinister plot to hold black people down... they have to remember that there IS such a thing as bigotry and prejudice.
And black people are guilty of both, in large amounts, daily.
And whether they like it or not...it has severe negative impacts on progress. And the lesser of two evils arguments doesn't apply. Wrong is wrong.
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