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7648, RE: DEFINITION OF RACISM
Posted by peace3, Thu Jul-18-02 12:48 PM
>rac·ism Pronunciation Key (rszm)
>n.
>1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human
>character or ability and that a particular race is superior
>to others.
>2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.

Fuck this defenition. More than likely written by a racist WHITE individual.
>
>There is nothing in the definition about power. There is
>nothing in the definition about opression. What most of you
>are talking about when you say that power is a prerequisite
>to racism is INSTITUTIONAL racism. By the very definition
>of the word, blacks can be racist. Whites can be racist.
>Hispanics, Native Americans and Australian Aboriginies can
>be racist. Koreans can be racist. Eskimos can be racist.

They can...but they aren't.


>If a black man calls someone "caveboy" he is being a racist.
No. That blackman is right.
lol!


>If you say black people can't be racist, then you are either
>inventing your own definition of the word "racism", or you
>don't understand the actual definition of the word.

Or you're reverse racists and vice versa...like me.
lol

Get da fuck outtahere CAVEBOY!!!

"Now I done left the physical form/but I'll come through wit da lyrical storm/and of da X-men/we breakin'em down in groups of ten/you'll neva get da decimal point!"-D Wreck

I was Hip Hop b4 Hip Hop had rules.

Pure is my thought
Much purer is my heart


PeaceShine