Accusations of white racism are rampant, with the topic of race turning immediately to the alleged hate deep in the heart of every white person. In fact, any “dialogue” on race is nothing more than a vicious black attack on whites who cannot defend themselves and usually respond with a payment to black organizations and neighborhoods from the government and corporations. But what about black racism? Is it even possible? If so, does it exist? And if it exists, is it more or less virulent than white racism?
When black leaders are asked about the issue of racism in their own community, their inevitable answer is that racism is an ability to translate bigotry into policy, and the powerless blacks are incapable of doing so, meaning that they are by definition incapable of racism.
But power has nothing to do with racism. Either you judge people based on their race or you do not. Racism is an ideology, just as every other “ism” is. Communists are communist even in a country where they are helpless. Capitalists are Capitalist no matter their power. All “ism’s” are ideologies and do not depend on their power. Blacks are capable of being part of any ideology, as it requires only that one believes something. They are therefore capable of being racist.
Power is also not a static. Even if one is helpless at the government level, he can have power in his daily life. Four black men who see a white girl in a dark alley without witnesses clearly have power over her. If they hate whites, they have the power to rob her, rape her, kill her or otherwise do as they please to translate their bigoted feelings into action.
Adults have power over children. Black parents, if racist, can teach their children to “hate whitey”.
Racist organization leaders can prevent whites into exclusively black gatherings, can hire only blacks, can promote only blacks and can otherwise discriminate in the same way that whites can.
Black jurors who are racist can cause an acquittal of black defendants who commit crime against whites (as in cases of OJ Simpson and Lemrick Nelson, among others), while voting to convict white defendants accused of anti-white crime even if it is clear that they are innocent, as was the case with the pressure from the black community to convict the innocent boys in the Duke “rape” hoax. A British study showed that blacks are about 3 times more likely to acquit black defendants than white, while white jurors are also more likely to acquit blacks, though by only a small margin.
A minority group need not necessarily be the most powerless group, even if the majority group is more powerful. There are far fewer Asians than blacks in the United States. They are underrepresented in positions of power – government, media, corporate boards. Blacks could be racist against Asians, and they frequently are.
Jews are a more established group in the United States, but even less strong demographically, with only 2% of the population. Black anti-Semitism reaches staggering proportions with about a third being ”strongly anti-Semitic” and another half of the black population “somewhat anti-Semitic”. The Crown Heights riot said and the subsequent acquittal of the admitted-murder Lemrick Nelson by the majority-black jury (that openly celebrated the victory in a restaurant with Mr. Nelson and his lawyers immediately after issuing their verdict) is a prime example of it. “We continue to remain troubled and somewhat at a loss to understand why African-Americans consistently have such strong anti-Semitic propensities,” said Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League.
Black racism is possible. Racism is an ideology and anyone, including blacks, can embrace it. (In the near future, I will compare black and white racism.)
There is absolutely no question that blacks are entirely capable of racism, and most are extremely racist. It has been tolerated and encouraged officially for at least two generations now, and we would be foolish to expect very many blacks not be racist with that sort of environmental encouragement.
The “only-the-powerful-can-be-racist” definition was a matter of convenient redefinition to create a situation in which minority racism is considered “non-racism” by definition and at the same time to condemn all members of the majority as racist. It was a brilliant tactical maneuver, but it should have never been allowed to stand unchallenged. It is clearly nothing more than a manipulation of language to redefine all of one group as automatically good and all of the other group as automatically bad. No rational human being can believe that is true. We have very few rational people left any more. Most have drunk the PC Kool-Aid and their minds have rotted away.
This like all aspects of Political Correctness can only be fought with the Truth. We must stand for the Truth, the rational understanding of what racism means. The language belongs to all of us, and no group has the right to redefine the words to suit their purposes.
Blacks in general are some of the most racist people on the face of the earth. Mestizos are right behind them. Let us not accept charges of racism from either of these groups.
If we define “racism” as “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races”, then I have to ask do the blacks, in general, consider themselves as superior to white people?
Advocates of Black Power can be described as ideologues – which makes them capable of “racism”. But are all or most black people (in the US) at least silent supporters of Black Power?
If “racism” is merely an “ideology” (stuff running around in people’s heads) – what word do you use to define the systems and actions of persons who subscribe to this ideology?
Further, what word do you use to describe person’s who believe in the existence of “races”?
Humor me.
A person who believes in races is a person who can see.
And race is not just skin deep: everything else, sizes and shapes of people’s nose, brain, limbs, hair, metabolism level, etc are different from race to race.
Scientists believe in races. In fact, they recently came up with a drug BiDil that works on blacks only.
The idea that there are no races is really a case of, “do you believe me or your lying eyes”.
Even a 2 year old child can tell who’s what race.
Do you also deny dog breeds? Do you deny the existence of polar bears, brown bears and grizzly bears? Do you deny that every animal, bird and fish on the planet can be divided into different races/breeds/groups?
Open your eyes! Literally, open your eyes!
What are the criteria you’re using and why? In some places it’s hair texture – in some places it’s hair color – in some places it’s partly the width of the nose – and sometimes it just the width of the nose…in some places it’s one combination – and in other places it’s another combination.
Which combination are you working with – and why? Do you change criteria based on region or historical period? If so, why?
No two year olds are in the discussion so don’t bother with them.
To take your example from “da Bears” — are persons with “blond hair” the same “race” as persons with “brown” hair – if so, why? If not, why not?
Are persons with “blond” curly hair the same race as persons with red straight hair? If so, why? If not, why not?
When does hair texture matter? What does “color” matter? Can so-called “whites” be some color other than “white” – if so, why? If not, why not? What defines a so-called Mongoloid – is it all genetic? Is it skin color? Is it eye shape? Is it a combination? If so, what combination are you working with – and why?
Also – before we go any further – you should probably answer this question…
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One word Temple3 “Hatred”. Hatred in any case is never healthy. We all want to live in a good and great society were we all are free from troubles and worries. We all want the garden of eden yet we do not live in one. Under these circumstances it is quite easy to lay blame on someone or some group for causing this living hell of a world. It’s hell if you are not wealthy, and even then most people are not happy under the system.
I don’t subscribe to the belief that black people are animals and are simply incapable of controlling themselves or looking further then 30 mins into the future. I believe what we are dealing with is cultural differences. I invite anyone to please go and study ancient history concerning the Greeks and the Romans and their very sinister views of the Celts and the Germans. Do you see the resemblance of the so called “barbarians” to what a lot of people today claim is wrong with black people?
Its cultural history, its individual viewpoints within a substratum of humanity seeing reality in a different way because they have other people seeing it in a similar way that have and are influencing their lives. This goes for both white and black people.
The bottom line is that regardless of the faults we see or want to see in different groups of humanity, we all live in this world together, and a people, a country, a world divided is a world destroyed. Change starts with you as the individual to see the merit in peaceful co-existance as opposed to violent feelings of hatred against others for some form of injustice real or imagined. Perpetuating hatred instead of bringing your fellow human closer is simply another step towards self-annihilation.
Black racism also exists, but this is never shown or reported. The black people have been allowed to get away with to much, they may use the excuse of slavery to defend there own racism, but when it is used against people who have nothing to do with slavery, then they justify the oppression that was used against them, if they can say they were oppressed, and this caused them to be the way they are, then other people can use the excuse that because they are racist towards people who have nothing to do with there oppression, then the blacks are racist by there nature, and so the oppression of there race was nothing abnormal and should not be used as an excuse for reparations.
Of course it is possible for blacks to be racist. Chris Rock, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, and several other famous blacks have been quoted making racist statements. Just think about it like this: if a white person were to make the same racist statement that a black makes, which would be considered racist? The white person, of course. They would be considered racist, but the black would be congratulated for exercising freedom of speech.