Can A White Person Be Racist To One Black Person And Not To Another?
The short answer is “yes”
Racism is a strange beast, sometimes it is not consistent. As Black people, we sometimes compare notes on white people. Because, believe it or not, when someone is racist to you, you always have this lingering doubt as to whether the action in itself is racially motivated.
You’ll be in your head trying to attach the behavior to something other than racism. As a Black woman, I’ll often say that that person was maybe sexist or jealous, or was having a bad day. It’s difficult to accept it was racism — you keep trying to make excuses for racists.
So as I was saying, Black people compare notes to understand whether the behavior they experienced from the said white person is racism.
One thing that I’ve come across at times is my Black friends who’ll tell me that they have experienced racism at the hands of a white person, while I may have been in contact with that same person and not experienced or noticed racism at all. I know a lot of people would simply assume that that white person must not be racist after all.
The idea that people are consistently racist is flawed. The most manipulative of racists of them all, the closet racist, knows when to turn that s*** off. They act like perfectly…
