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Barack Obama is biracial. He's not a good representation for the Black community. Also his father is an African immigrant with no deep history in America.
So when Obama does well, he's black.
When Obama not doing well doesn't advance the narrative, he's biracial.
That's a cop out. Why are you so afraid to admit that the man with THE most power in the entire world --- who could render the entire planet into a heap of ashes within an hour --- is a black man?
After all, there are very few black people in America who are 100% black and unmixed at some level.
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Originally Posted by gwillyfromphilly
Black racists don't matter because they don't exist in America.
I question the motivation and powerful insistence by (some) black people that "THEY" certainly could never be RACIST!
That make you feel better? To believe that no feeling of animosity, superiority or distrust you have towards any white, brown or Asian person is actually "racism"? Make you feel better to cast it as "prejudice" or some other term which is just basically a synonym of racism?
Does such mealy-mouthed parsing help you and others get over the cognitive dissonance that comes from demanding an end to racism, as well as for respect and to not be judged or treated differently on account of race on one hand..... but wanting or simultaneously harboring contradictory feelings towards others on account of their race?
I mean, if that's the ultimate goal... yet another form of empowerment or esteem building or something, go for it if it helps you through the day. Just realize that you're selling that bull**** like it's a religion, and the only people buying it are the already converted.
It's odd how vehemently internet posters peddle in tautology. Give yourself a hand.
Further congratulations, sir/madam, for explaining institutional racism vs. private or situational racism.
However you and others fail to take it one step further. Everytime some white person is racist is an expression of institutional racism. The vast majority of racism is always private/an expression of prejudice.
Private and situational racism, however, affects people in very real ways. On an individual level, such interactions between people are "more real" in every day ways that the specter of the "man" or "the system" keeping everyone down.
The fact that police "kill a black person every 28 hours" (which also includes justified homicides, btw, and not all incidents like the NC case) actually is less important and real for the average person than the likely more frequent incidents and chance of being touched by non-institutional violence motivated by race.
I think the bold is an overstatement, but not egregiously so. I agree with much of what follows, however.
I also think that the concept of institutional racism does cover incidents that I think you are suggesting are private expressions of prejudice. For example, I think that institutional racism would include bias against black-sounding names on resumes.
Racial bias in policing is institutional, and also official in that it has the imprimatur of law. But at least aspects of racial bias in policing rest on the private prejudices/biases of individual representatives of law enforcement.
Anyone no matter what their race is can be racist in 2015.
And anyone that insists that people be treated differently on this topic based on their "race," is very certainly a racist.
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