How come only white people can be racist?

Question

No I'm just kidding. What do you think of people who say things like this?

Answer 1

1. They are racist themselves... 2. they're kidding themselves. 3.They like to cast the blame. They are lured into a false sense of security by believing that "Just because I am this particular race I cannot ever be racist". It's sad isnt it?

Answer 2

Even though you jest, it is a subconscous feeling that many people throughout North America have. I do deny that there are white people who are racists. I also do not deny that racism exists in other ethnic groups. I am of the impression that people who make that type of comment are looking for an advantage, some way they can be morally superior, while they themselves never have to be held accountable.

I worked in a CD store years ago, and shortly after the Rodney King incident occurred, many people of mixed races took to the streets to protest what they felt was an inexcusable and violent racist act. They seemed to have spontaneously collected on the main street and began destroying private and public property out of protest. An individual (who was not white) smashed the front window of the CD stote, stuck his head through the hole and cried out, "How does it feel?!?"

Apparently, to that individual, his random act of destruction was morally justified in response to what occurred in a different city (with a different police force), yet he could do such an act without being accountable for it. This scene has always stayed in my mind. Likewise, the words of a local rapper have also stayed in my mind too: "If it is only an individual making racial comments like "cracker" it is not truly racism; it is truly racism when it is institutionalized and prevents people of other races from achieving their goals."

To even think that only white people support an institution that prevents people of other races from achieving their goals is absolutely ludicrous.

Answer 3

That's how most of our society thinks. It isn't considered racist when minorities say or do bad things to White people. A lot of people think that the definition of a racist is an evil White person who hates people with dark skin.

Answer 4

You are wrong about only white people being racist. ANYONE can be racist. Being a racist is simply being prejudiced against another group based on things like skin color or religious preference or any other criteria used to separate my group from your group in a derogatory manner. If you want to see an example, look at the genocide in Ruwanda (sp?), which was strictly black on black racism and prejudice. What about the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia? My question is this, when a black man puts a bumper sticker on his car which says "Black and proud of it" we say he is proud of his heritage, but if a white man puts a bumper sticker on his car which says "White and proud of it" he is considered a racist? Why is it OK for a black man to call another black man a "you know what" but not anyone else? And don't feed me that crap about "taking the power" back. If you can use it, I can use it which means if I can't use it, you can't either. For it to be OK for a black man to use that word with another and not OK for me is to promote a double standard and a reverse form of discrimination. Racism is nothing more than prejudice and anyone can be one, red, yellow, white, black, blue, green or purple, makes no difference.

Answer 5

People are like this because they were raised like that. Racist is something your not born with. You must be tought to be one.

Answer 6

They they are trying to justify their own beliefs without having to take responsibility or ownership for them.
Anyone can be prejudice against another and there is no justification for hating another human based on characteristics such religion, race, sex etc

Answer 7

That every other race has a right to be racist because it is human nature. now when is stereotyping racism?

Answer 8

I wouldn't say anything - waste of my energy. Every other people would have jumped onto that guy before I have a chance to react anyway. lol

Answer 9

I had a black friend and most all his friends had something to say racist about me.and not one of my white friends said anything about him being black and when he was in the car i was pulled over a lot by policemen. about five are six times, a black guy and a white guy together seems suspicious it seems.

Answer 10

I think something along the lines of "Wow I'm glad common sense is finally making a comeback in this country."

I'm sick of having to bear the burden for all of the minorities shortcoming and failures just for being white in America.