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10663, people of color being racist
Posted by TinkyWinky, Fri Oct-12-01 08:25 AM
People of color can
>have prejudice, can be bigotted,
>but they cannot, I repeat,
>cannot be racist.

careful with a generalization like this. power dynamics can exist on smaller scales that can still result in actual racism. an indian man or a chinese woman who owns a store is a person of color, but if they refuse to hire black employees or they won't hand the change to a black customer, isn't that racism within a small-scale power dynamic? maybe you and i equate racism with power via different means, but i view these examples as racism, albeit a non-institutionalized, non-normalized variety.

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