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**dodsCooggipsedebt** · 03-30-2012, 05:57 PM

NO, this is a myth that has to stop, and I see you are mixed race so you have to understand it. Racism is based on power. As such only those classified as white in our current global system truly have the power to be racist against those who aren't classified as 'white'. People who aren't classified as white simply can't be racist in tbe same way. A mixed race South American being racist to a black African is kind of impotent, if that's the right way to put it, they just don't have the global social power to back it up. I'm not saying this is right, I am just saying there is a clear hierarchy in place right now, and it is pure Europeans against non-pure European or any one else. It might well change in the future, but right now that is what most people understand, and that is why the Luis Suarez case is weird. Except that Europeans (whites) are always liable to accept others to their fold when it suits, if it's in their interest, I guess that's what happening now, with slightly ambiguous South Americans. Maybe...?

You may be right in principle, but people who are considered as "white" aren't in power everywhere. Also, direct person to person racism, perhaps involving violence, does not require anyone to be in power in a social context. Furthermore, in the US, an African American person may very well be the boss of some whitey, and as such he can theoretically be racists against him as he is the wielder of power in that case.

If some assumed whitey enters an area populated entirely by non-whiteys, the residents there can also be racists in many ways towards that person, if they use slurs and take action against that person on perceived racial grounds. They have the "power" in that scenario.

I can think of a gazillion scenarios where any kind of people can be racists.

03-30-2012, 05:57 PM	#33
dodsCooggipsedebt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 461 Senior Member	NO, this is a myth that has to stop, and I see you are mixed race so you have to understand it. Racism is based on power. As such only those classified as white in our current global system truly have the power to be racist against those who aren't classified as 'white'. People who aren't classified as white simply can't be racist in tbe same way. A mixed race South American being racist to a black African is kind of impotent, if that's the right way to put it, they just don't have the global social power to back it up. I'm not saying this is right, I am just saying there is a clear hierarchy in place right now, and it is pure Europeans against non-pure European or any one else. It might well change in the future, but right now that is what most people understand, and that is why the Luis Suarez case is weird. Except that Europeans (whites) are always liable to accept others to their fold when it suits, if it's in their interest, I guess that's what happening now, with slightly ambiguous South Americans. Maybe...? You may be right in principle, but people who are considered as "white" aren't in power everywhere. Also, direct person to person racism, perhaps involving violence, does not require anyone to be in power in a social context. Furthermore, in the US, an African American person may very well be the boss of some whitey, and as such he can theoretically be racists against him as he is the wielder of power in that case. If some assumed whitey enters an area populated entirely by non-whiteys, the residents there can also be racists in many ways towards that person, if they use slurs and take action against that person on perceived racial grounds. They have the "power" in that scenario. I can think of a gazillion scenarios where any kind of people can be racists.
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