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Jerry Lavigne, Jr. - Why Black People Can’t Be Racist

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i felt the spirit of God while watching this.

hallelujah

hallelujah!

HALLELUJAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THIS IS THE DUMBEST MOST IGNORANT THING I HAVE EVER SEEN!

I’m not even going to go into why because I’m having a decent night and I don’t want to ruin it. This is why I tune out when black people try to talk about racism, politics, religion or any type of sensitive subject that doesn’t just concern the “black community”. 

Things this guy is:  Wrong.

Jay-Z (Rockafella Music), Michael Jordan (Charlotte Bobcats), Robert Johnson/The Johnson Family (BET Television), Oprah (Her own network), Barry Gordy (Founder of Motown), Obama (The United States, perhaps you’ve heard of it), Russell Simmons (Phat Farm), P. Diddy (Bad Boy Record, Sean John, just to name a couple), Bertram Lee and Peter Bynoe (Denver Nuggets), so on and so forth.  

You can’t say that black people can’t be racist because black people “don’t own anything”.  And even if black people owned NOTHING in this country or any other, saying that people without power can’t be racist is ridiculous.

How many KKK members are powerful?  How many poor people are racist in this country?  A lot.  And his claim of “Oh, maybe you’re not racist, but people who look like you are.” is a pretty racist statement on its own.  That’s called profiling.

There is a lot of racism in this country, of course.  And yes, there are more white people than black in this country, and black people didn’t have as many rights as white people for a long time, and that’s terrible.  But saying that black people can’t be racist because they’re not “in power” is like saying “I can’t go swimming because I’m not at the lake.”  The two aren’t mutually exclusive.  

rac·ism (noun)

1.

a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among thevarious human races  determine cultural or individualachievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2.

a policy, system of government, etc., based upon orfostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

3.

hatred or intolerance of another race  or other races.

Yes, black people can be racist.  Any race can be racist, and it’s a terrible thing, regardless. 

Oh god. Did you just say that Barack Obama owns the United States? Did you just say that saying that a lot of white people are racist… is racist??? Also did you suggest that Black people actually have equal rights in this country now? I’m not even sure where to start with this.

First off, white people write dictionaries. We also own the companies that publish dictionaries. Using the white dictionary definition of a word over the actual meaning of a word as accepted by anti-racists everywhere, well, that’s fairly insensitive. The actual definition of racism = prejudice + power. Racism is systematic, prejudice is not. Yes, a Black person can be prejudiced against me for being white, but a Black person cannot be racist against me because there is no power system controlled by Black people that can racially oppress me. Do you see the difference?

Here’s a tip. This, as a white person, has helped me out a lot in the course of my life and my attempts to deal with my ingrained racism. When people who have been racially oppressed start talking about their racial oppression, shut the ever-living fuck up and listen. You and I have no idea what it’s like to be oppressed because of our race, but that doesn’t mean that we have to flat out deny any attempt to grasp what it may be like. Listening will make you better. Closing your eyes and holding your hands over your ears and screaming about your poor white feelings, however, won’t.