(October 5, 2018 at 7:01 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: But on a smaller level, it's certainly possible for one to be racist against white people.
Racist in the general sense, sure. But I'd like to emphasize one key thing from that page.
Quote:The black nationalist movement is a reaction to centuries of institutionalized white supremacy in America.
The bigotry/hatred in this case is reactionary, as opposed to being due to power and privilege. They're not favored by the current social/racial/economic/political/legal/religious systems that have been established, and continue to be maintained, for the benefit of white people in America and elsewhere.
I think it's important to make that distinction between this kind of racism and the institutional racism clear, because to suggest otherwise to the privileged is to continue to enable them to be blind to the extent of injustices against the unprivileged and to falsely [and dangerously] think that they can also be discriminated against as badly because of their whiteness.
Of course, I say this not simply from my own mouth, as you probably know. This is something that black people themselves have argued for, and I find their argument that white people cannot be considered victims of racism to be reasonable and compelling. White people can certainly still be hated and experience bitterness and anger from others, though.
And yes, I agree tribalism is at the root of all this, and pretty much every group is guilty of it. And I'm certainly not at all advocating for power to be transferred to "the other side".
