Anyone can be prejudiced. Racism is defined as being prejudiced with a position of power. That's how black people typically get out of being called racist.
Bible_Belt, I am not accusing you of supporting this lie because you sound lukewarm on it, so this is not personally directed at you.
But this has to stop now. This definition has been debunked seven ways from Sunday countless times over.
Racism has nothing to do with power.
The
legal definition of racism does not refer to possession of power at all. And even if one was to look for a nuanced inference sort of buried in the deepest context of the word, it's difficult to find it from this:
"prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior."
The prejudice + power myth only became popular in the late 60's. It was trumpeted mostly by black nationalist college professors who, if you look at their general body of work, were mostly communists with nutty views. The only other people who parroted this were overweight, white feminist women who wanted to virtue signal their tolerance for their own personal benefit.
Even to this day, it is
not a mainstream definition. It is a radical alternative definition that is generally only used in sociology courses at leftist universities, and by radical black political pundits and pseudo-intellectuals who appear in media.
So without targeting the discredited hacks like Sharpton and Jackson, or the the terrorists over at Black Lives Matter (as they're just too easy to debunk), I'll instead focus on the supposed black "scholars" who also repeat this alternative definition. I have studied the work of these people pretty closely. So let's see:
Marc Lamont Hill once wrote an article called
"The 15 Most Overrated White People."
Boyce Watkins recently made a Youtube video calling Tomi Lahren "white trash"
Umar Johnson once compared white Americans to Nazis during WWII on a radio show.
Michael Eric Dyson once stated more white kids needed to die for whites to understand racism.
Cornel West STILL believes the Michael Brown "hands up, don't shoot" lie despite hard evidence to the contrary.
These are all incredibly vile, racist statements to make or positions to hold and they appear to be rooted in a deep seated black tribalism (esp the Cornel West example, siding with the black aggressor over the white victim against all evidence on the sole basis of blackness).
Thus if these are the faces of the "prejudice + power" theory, one has to ask himself; if this definition is mostly popular among people like this, could this spin on the word actually be a tactic to avoid accountability for their own racism? After all, what better way to get at the white man than to change the goalposts so that only he can be called racist? And as a side perk I can never be held fully accountable for what I do.
I do not hear a lot of prominent black moderates using this definition, nor do I hear ordinary black people using it. There are vids all over YouTube of surveys done where ordinary black people from the hood admitted how racist black people can be.
There is a clear connection between this myth and Marxism, which is an entire political ideology centered around defending the "powerless" against the "powerful", and most of it is total bunk. Prejudice + power is just one branch of the Marxism tree, and non-Marxists should reject this garbage. And yes, this was a RACIST hate crime.
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P.S. Even working under the false premise that racism has anything to do with power, in theory blacks could still be incredibly racist. We have a black President, black Attorney General, black Supreme Court justice, black police, black Super lawyers, black billionaires.
At what point does a demographic begin to have power? What else do black people need to achieve in this country to cross the "power" threshold?
