Black people can't be racist

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I hope everyone agrees that if a Black person shouts "I hate you f**king yellow men" at a Chinese American person, the Black person is being racist.

Black people can be racist towards Chinese in that term, I suppose.

But Black people cannot be racist towards white people, prejudiced, yes, they are prejudiced, but racist no, if you are talking about the power aspect of it

This is an entirely semantic debate that depends on whether one believes that racism is defined as prejudice+power, or just prejudice.

No one believes black people are incapable or prejudice.

No one (hopefully) believes that black people as a group hold power over white people as a group.

Racial prejudice = racism.

If a Black person goes out and kills a group of White people and when asked why that person says "I hate White people". How is that not racist?

Look, I'm a Black man and I understand that we've had to deal with over 400 years of White supremacy and oppression in the Americas and in Africa. However, that doesn't mean that Black people can't be racist against White people. ANYBODY of any ethnicity or race can be racist.


Systematic racism = racism+power. Black people in the Western world cannot be systematically racist against White people. That is true but making the blanket statement that "Black people can't be racist" is false.

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Systematic racism = racism+power. Black people in the Western world cannot be systematically racist against White people.

If, hypothetically, the county government in Macon County, Alabama decided to claim all property held by white people (and only white people) as eminent domain, would that not count as an act of black systemic racism? Or must majority demographics be held at some arbitrarily higher level of spatial aggregation in order to count?

Systematic racism means on a wide-scale level not isolated cases or incidents. White people on a wide-scale level don't have to worry about Black people doing something like that because 1) most Black people don't want to do that and 2) White people control most institutions and elective governments in the United States.

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Systematic racism = racism+power. Black people in the Western world cannot be systematically racist against White people.

If, hypothetically, the county government in Macon County, Alabama decided to claim all property held by white people (and only white people) as eminent domain, would that not count as an act of black systemic racism? Or must majority demographics be held at some arbitrarily higher level of spatial aggregation in order to count?

Systematic racism means on a wide-scale level not isolated cases or incidents. White people on a wide-scale level don't have to worry about Black people doing something like that because 1) most Black people don't want to do that and 2) White people control most institutions and elective governments in the United States.

Though it would obviously be less widespread given the demographic makeup of the US, wouldn't it still be racist if the government of a black majority-county persecuted white homeowners since the county holds the power in this hypothetical scenario?

Well, if race was the primary motivator behind the eminent domain policy then, yes.

However, it wouldn't be SYSTEMATIC/SYSTEMIC racism. White people on a wide-scale level don't have to worry about that and that's exactly why it's only a hypothetical scenario.