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Sheryl Swoopes is right: Black people can't be racist
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:33 pm
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Black or white, anyone can be prejudiced. I might not like you because of your skin color, and that makes me prejudiced. But it doesn’t automatically make me racist unless I also have the power to impact your life because of my prejudice. There are few, if any, areas of American life where Blacks hold such power. Thus, Sheryl Swoopes was correct. Blacks can’t be racist — but that doesn’t mean they can’t be prejudiced. They can.
This definition of racism opens the door to an intelligent and important conversation about the power gap between Blacks and whites. One that makes a distinction between racism and prejudice. Police brutality, overwhelmingly white-on-Black violence, is an example of racism enacted physically. Redlining, where Blacks cannot buy homes or receive loans in certain areas, is a form of economic racism. Preventing the teaching of Black history is a form of educational racism. Making it harder for Black people to vote is a form of political racism. A Black woman disparaging the abilities and career choices of a white female basketball player may be prejudiced, but it does not rise to the level of racism as defined by the Kerner Commission.
If we don’t talk about race in this country, all we will do is fight over it, often with deadly consequences. Today, there are too many examples of racism where violence, collective punishment and genocide pass as alternatives to dialogues.
And, if we are going to talk about race, a common starting point is necessary, and a decent definition of racism is as good as any. By saying Blacks can’t be racist, Sheryl Swoopes opened up a lane to the basket for a difficult, yet essential, conversation, and a path to restorative rather than retributive justice.
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Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:34 pm to stout
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might not like you because of your skin color, and that makes me prejudiced. But it doesn’t automatically make me racist
Wtf is this nonsense
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:34 pm to stout
What else can’t black people be?
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:34 pm to stout
quote:Black people cause racism.
Black people can't be racist
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:36 pm to stout
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Sheryl Swoopes is right: Black people can't be racist
Am I racist now for not having read a sentence of that bullshite?
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:38 pm to Crimson1st
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Am I racist now for not having read a sentence of that bullshite?
Yes
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:40 pm to stout
Literally describing racism yet claiming it's not racist.
Stereotypes exist for a reason.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:41 pm to stout
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This definition of racism opens the door to an intelligent and important conversation about the power gap between Blacks and whites
Sorry…you don’t get to change the definition so you can say and do racist things.
*close door*
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:41 pm to stout
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Police brutality, overwhelmingly white-on-Black violence,
This is just false more whites are killed by cops each year
Also racism is literally the prejudice or discrimination based on someone’s race
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:41 pm to stout
She thinks every individual white person has power over her life. The dem plantation is real and full of weak minds.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:44 pm to theunknownknight
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What else can’t black people be?
If you listen to the dems they cannot be: Lawyers, Doctors, Entrepreneurs, Thin, Engineers or Non-Violent.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:45 pm to stout
That’s such a shallow take. So if it’s 51% to 49% the 49% can’t be racist.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:46 pm to Figgy
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If you listen to the dems they cannot be: Lawyers, Doctors, Entrepreneurs, Thin, Engineers or Non-Violent.
If you listen to Dems black people aren't even smart enough to get an ID
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:47 pm to stout
quote:Eventually, this kind of ignorance will abutt a wall of truth. When it does, records such as this will reverberate. It is just a matter of time.
I might not like you because of your skin color, and that makes me prejudiced. But it doesn’t automatically make me racist
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:52 pm to stout
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And, if we are going to talk about race, a common starting point is necessary, and a decent definition of racism is as good as any. By saying Blacks can’t be racist, Sheryl Swoopes opened up a lane to the basket for a difficult, yet essential, conversation, and a path to restorative rather than retributive justice.
Translation: Black people should be free to be as racist and biased as they want because their great grandpappy suffered segregation.
Feel free black people to be as pushy as possible to take as much resources from whitey as possible (restorative justice)
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:53 pm to Richleau
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That’s such a shallow take. So if it’s 51% to 49% the 49% can’t be racist.
Except in cities they are the 51%. They still cant be racist.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:54 pm to stout
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Police brutality, overwhelmingly white-on-Black violence,
Is it, though? Data seems to suggest this isn’t really the case. Unless we’re redefining black police as a “white power structure.”
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Redlining, where Blacks cannot buy homes or receive loans in certain areas, is a form of economic racism.
This is illegal and is, for all practical purposes, eliminated from our society. The author will tell us because there’s rich neighborhoods with predominantly white inhabitants that redlining still occurs. It doesn’t.
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Preventing the teaching of Black history is a form of educational racism.
This isn’t happening. No one is preventing the teaching of “black history.” Some states have presciently banned overlying a Marxist framework to American history and calling it history.
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Making it harder for Black people to vote is a form of political racism.
This is also illegal and doesn’t happen.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 5:02 pm to theunknownknight
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What else can’t black people be?
Apparently not smart enough to get an ID to vote. At least that’s what the progtards told me
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