Black Racists

Here's a quoted reply to a post about Oprah's "old racists just have to die" comment on the Grio

"There are no more racist people than Black people."

...Right. Remember when we exterminated the Indians and forced kidnapped Europeans into centuries of chattel slavery, then ostensibly freed them only to create an apartheid state, then fought their fight for civil rights for decades through legislation and domestic policy strategy, maintaining a wide economic and educational gap that persists to this day?

Do you remember when Blacks did that? Huh?

Then when the oppressed groups participated in a coalition to elect a man who identifies as White to the office of the Presidency (finally!) remember how we obstructed and disrespected him in unprecedented ways? Remember how we called him a Mormon terrorist from Eastern Europe? All the memes on the Internet identifying him as a Gypsy? The knee-jerk reactionary backlash against his judicial nominations and signature legislation?

Do you remember when that happened?

You don't? Because it didn't go down like that? Then what, exactly, makes Blacks the greatest racists in America?

Oh, because we use the word nigger and don't allow Whites to use it? That might, and I don't really believe this but I could at least understand the argument, make us hypocrites. But not racist.

What else? Because we have called Whites pejorative names like "cracker" and "devil"? Not nice terms, to be sure, derogatory and possibly hurtful. But the difference is those terms have never possessed the leverage of law and culture giving them weight; meaning that when Blacks are treated as living icons of epithets, the full power of society acts to ensure that we live down to our reputations, that the hatred behind the words is made known in our lives and on our flesh. Prejudice and racism are not the same, although they may sometimes look alike.

What else you got? Affirmative Action? That's helped more White woman than Black men; and they needed the help. Still do, if you look at corporate America and dollars earned versus men. And it is not as if we have a preponderance of Blacks earning PhDs on the public dime. In fact, considering the number of Blacks incarcerated by the criminal prison-industrial complex, it can be argued that Blacks, and to a lesser degree Latinos, still form the unpaid labor core of an industry designed and maintained by whites for financial gain and social control, operating under the guise of law and order.

It is not the fault of Black America that the white-middle class has crumbled apart like a rotten tooth; we have been gumming our food for years. If the blue-collar Whites don't stop the manipulation that the power elite exerts over them like a vampire's glamor and start seeing the lessons of history and the realities of politics and economics, we will continue to see natural allies played against one another and that same power elite diminish in number and increase in obscene wealth and disproportionate influence over our republic.

Now, call me a reverse racist. Whatever in blue blazes that is means.