Just a disclaimer, this is only what I believe is the truth. I know many people have different opinions on this topic and anything can be true depending on how you define racism.
I define racism as a group of people who have power wherever they are and use it against the minorities around them. And, to me, those people are white people.
Now I just want to say, I have nothing against white people. Half of my family is white, and I love them.
In America, minorities don't have overall power. And we don't have the overall population, not yet at least.
I read a paragraph by David Pilgrim of The Jim Crow Museum. It reads, "I would not be a sociologist worth my salt if I did not acknowledge that racial minorities (and women) do not have a proportionate share of power, prestige, property, and privilege... a minority (seen as a category) does not have the same or as many opportunities to hurt (discriminate against) the majority group."
I just really can't believe that minorities can be racist. Because in order to be racist you have to have power and privilege, but in this country they don't have that. So how does that make any sense?
I guess I will just have to do more research on this because everyone in my class was trying to prove me wrong. They are just not seeing it from another point of view, which I guess is true for me, too. So tonight I will be looking more into this subject.
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