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Home >> United States & Canada >> Race and Multiculturalism The State of Racism: Part 1 - Is Black Racism Possible? Guy White - 3/9/2008 Accusations of white racism are rampant, with the topic of race turning immediately to the alleged hate deep in the heart of every white person. In fact, any “dialogue” on race is nothing more than a vicious black attack on whites who cannot defend themselves and usually respond with a payment to black organizations and neighborhoods from the government and corporations. But what about black racism? Is it even possible? If so, does it exist? And if it exists, is it more or less virulent than white racism? Is Black Racism Possible?When black leaders are asked about the issue of racism in their own community, their inevitable answer is that racism is an ability to translate bigotry into policy, and the powerless blacks are incapable of doing so, meaning that they are by definition incapable of racism. But power has nothing to do with racism. Either you judge people based on their race or you do not. Racism is an ideology, just as every other “ism” is. Communists are communist even in a country where they are helpless. Capitalists are Capitalist no matter their power. All “ism’s” are ideologies and do not depend on their power. Blacks are capable of being part of any ideology, as it requires only that one believes something. They are therefore capable of being racist. Power is also not a static. Even if one is helpless at the government level, he can have power in his daily life. Four black men who see a white girl in a dark alley without witnesses clearly have power over her. If they hate whites, they have the power to rob her, rape her, kill her or otherwise do as they please to translate their bigoted feelings into action. Adults have power over children. Black parents, if racist, can teach their children to “hate whitey”. Racist organization leaders can prevent whites into exclusively black gatherings, can hire only blacks, can promote only blacks and can otherwise discriminate in the same way that whites can. Black jurors who are racist can cause an acquittal of black defendants who commit crime against whites (as in cases of OJ Simpson and Lemrick Nelson, among others), while voting to convict white defendants accused of anti-white crime even if it is clear that they are innocent, as was the case with the pressure from the black community to convict the innocent boys in the Duke “rape” hoax. A British study showed that blacks are about 3 times more likely to acquit black defendants than white, while white jurors are also more likely to acquit blacks, though by only a small margin. A minority group need not necessarily be the most powerless group, even if the majority group is more powerful. There are far fewer Asians than blacks in the United States. They are underrepresented in positions of power – government, media, corporate boards. Blacks could be racist against Asians, and they frequently are. Jews are a more established group in the United States, but even less strong demographically, with only 2% of the population. There are 6 times as many blacks in the United States as Jews. And yet, black anti-Semitism reaches staggering proportions with about a third being ”strongly anti-Semitic” and another half of the black population “somewhat anti-Semitic”. The Crown Heights riot said and the subsequent acquittal of the admitted-murder Lemrick Nelson by the majority-black jury (that openly celebrated the victory in a restaurant with Mr. Nelson and his lawyers immediately after issuing their verdict) is a prime example of it. "We continue to remain troubled and somewhat at a loss to understand why African-Americans consistently have such strong anti-Semitic propensities," said Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League. Black racism is possible. Racism is an ideology and anyone, including blacks, can embrace it. Part two will discuss how prevalent it is and compare white and black racism.
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