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I've worked with lots of Asians. I have Asians as part of my family too. I know some are racist but not all are
Which is true of any race of people.
You still don't get it. Not every race here enforced their racism by rule of law. This truth is consistently avoided by virtually every white person here.
But I do get that. I've accepted and admitted that numerous times. That doesn't change that in any race of people, some are racist but not all are.
I think A said it very well. And that's he problem with these discussions. The people from any race can be racist claim is consistently used by whites here to defect from the fact that whites enforced their racism by written law and the denied others of equal rights because of it. Just saying people of any race can be racist can't be said without acknowledgement of what whites did is disingenuous. A black person saying whites are devils does not literally deny any white person of equal rights even as it is a racist comment.
Maybe for some. For others, the claim that anyone can be racist is made to counter claims that one must be engaging in systemic racism in order to be a racist.
One can absolutely say that members of any race can be racist without saying anything about white systemic racism. The two are connected but not the same thing.
A black person saying whites are devils does not deny a white person equal rights. A white person doing the same doesn't deny a black person equal rights, either. Calling someone a devil doesn't magically create systemic racism.
No you cannot. You choose to. But the reality you cannot face is that whites are the only ones in this country who enforced their racism by law/policy. For it is systemic racism that has been the cause of the problems we have had and it's the cause of the problems we still have. We as blacks are talking about systemic racism because a white boy calling me a name doesn't mean a mother fucking thing. Without systemic racism, racism has no force and for you to use this weak argument to try the standard white excuse of not everything is… is chump lock.
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