No, Black People Cannot Be “Racist” Here’s Why.
Claiming that “Black people can be racist too” implies that there is shared equity on the racial hierarchy. But this is antithetical to the creation and purpose of the racial hierarchy. Further, there is no “race-science” that places Black people in a position of “genetic-superiority” over “White” people.
Racism is born from the legislated right to practice “White” supremacy in 1681. It is the legislated right to hold superiority over others based on skin color. Black people were legislated to be inferior to the manufactured group legislated as “White” people.
Black people cannot be what was never legislated to them. Black people can only create methods of coping to survive the legislated inferior status and that would include any form of reactionary/retaliatory response to the reality imposed by this power dynamic.
In order for one to be “racist,” they must identify with a perception of legislated power associated with the group established as “White” people. This identity, furthermore, is “validated” by “race-science” or the “objective” data to support a framework of racial superiority. A product of European and American aristocracy, “race-science” has established a false concept of separate “races” rather than 1 human race.
