For Once and For All, Black People Cannot Be Racist, Part 2

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This is a continuation and clarification…

So, a couple months back I wrote an article about why Black people cannot be racist, and I got a decent amount of feedback.

People were in my comments arguing that Black people can also be racist — something typically called reverse racism. This means that Black people can be racist against white people. Ironically, this term is also an admittance that racism is white oppression against Black people, or how else could you reverse it?

Any-who…

There are more people on the planet than Black and white people. So, I got a few comments about supposed racism of Black people against other people of color. I’ll address that. There was also a comment saying different ethnic groups in Africa (both Black) can be racist against each other. Also, it was pointed out that people of color, who are not Black, also experience racism. I would never deny this. And that people of color can be racist against each other…

Oh yeah, and a couple people assured me there’s a world outside of America, and that everything I was saying referred to America, and America only.

So here’s the first clarification. I’m going to use a new definition of racism, and it’s…