What is the differance between black racism and white racism?

Question

I hope I don't offend anybody. It is my belief that racism works both ways. I mean there are black people who hate people simply because they are white or have a lack of trust in a white person or preconcieved notion or somethign like that. Is there a differance between the two races really? I mean it works both ways. Am I only one who thinks that.

Answer 1

Racism means showing racial preference in anything no matter how seemingly insignificant. If a black man see's a white man and another black man playing a game of chess, and he secretly wants the black man to win, he is racist. Spike Lees definition is BS
' My point- pretty much everybody is racist

Answer 2

Not at all.

Some amount of racism is a natural phenomenon. The more that someone resembles ourselves or someone we hold in high esteem, the more likely we are to be sympathetic to them. For example, take the phrases 'birds of a feather flock together' and 'blood is thicker than water'. They mean that we are naturally drawn to people who are our family our 'kind' of people.

People who deviate too far from our own world view are not immediately accepted. They have to work harder and provide more reasons for them to be accepted.

This holds true for race, gender, religion, country of origin, school or where we live. There are not too many Yankee fans who are native Bostonians, and few Red Sox fans born and raised in NYC.

What we all need is to work on our impulse control to give the 'other' guy a chance and to be more tolerant of minor slights they may inflict unintentionally.

Answer 3

"Bigotry" is any obstinate and intolerant devotion to ones own group, be it racial, religious, political, or national. "Racism" is simply bigotry based on race, and it is in no way restricted to one race. Consider your own question, you couch it in terms of black and white races, do you, therefor, deny the existence of any others? What about Native Americans and Asians, we are neither, yet, as a Native American, I have been told by African Americans all my life that I must be White because I'm not Black, that is as racist as anything you describe, the fact that a group has never been in position to construct a society to institutionalize their bigotry doesn't make their bigotry any less real or destructive, and I know from experience that being the wrong skin color in an all black neighborhood is no different from being so in an all white neighborhood, and that racial profiling is no less common among black than white police officers. As to the cause, it is largely a matter of how someone is raised, as Hitler said, "Give me a boy until he's seven, and I'll have him the rest of his life." I've heard Black People my whole life talk about Whites the same way the Nazis talked about Jews, it's all "a Great Conspiracy to Keep Us Down", and they justify it by examples such as you used, ignoring the fact that, Historically, racial discrimination had it's origin in Slave Trading, because skin color was the easiest way to identify who you could or couldn't own, and that the original justification for slavery, and, by extension, for the discrimination that followed, was not race but religion. Islamic Law forbids the enslavement of Muslims, and Christianity embraced the same principle with the Papal Bull of 1452, the "Dum Diversas" wherein Pope Nicholas V authorized Alfonso V of Portugal to enslave all non Christians in west Africa, and expanded it to include all people south of Cape Bojador in his Bull of 1455, the "Romanos Pontifex". Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a Color Blind Society called for changes in all peoples, not just those of European origin, and, if you recall, resistance to and support of his position came from members of all Races, not just one, or even two.

Answer 4

i always beleived that such hatred as racism stems from the fact that both speak the language and blacks still use slavery as a basis to believe conspiracy against them,, and white are somehow subconciously ashamed of their own dark past( no pun intended_.. so they each use racism as a way to justify their guilt and shame

Answer 5

The white racist drives a pickup truck, drinks beer, and tosses his empties in the ditch.

The black racist drives a pickup truck, drinks beer, and tosses his empties in the back of the truck.

I think that about covers all the differences.

Answer 6

Black racism is the ones about anger, but includes wanting to murder whites for how they perceive they've been treated.

Problem is, they are not being realistic.

Blacks have often been the most racist even during slavery times when blacks sold blacks into slavery.


Nowadays, its mroe black racism than any other.

Answer 7

White people have a dark past... and black people can't forget what happened. Now black people believe they've to make justice by their own hands, by working harder and conquering leadership positions in our society. I guess they're trying to clean their ancestors past. But I believe there's enough room for everyone and we should focus on other things.

Answer 8

racism, hate are all the same, different races have different reasons, but hate is hate........

Answer 9

Bypassing the psychology of it all, it's ignorant no matter what color the person is.

Answer 10

There is no difference, each is as obnoxious as the other.