No, Black People Cannot Be “Racist” Here’s Why.

Claiming that “Black people can be racist too” implies that there is shared equity on the racial hierarchy. But this is antithetical to the creation and purpose of the racial hierarchy. Further, there is no “race-science” that places Black people in a position of “genetic-superiority” over “White” people.

Racism is born from the legislated right to practice “White” supremacy in 1681. It is the legislated right to hold superiority over others based on skin color. Black people were legislated to be inferior to the manufactured group legislated as “White” people.

Black people cannot be what was never legislated to them. Black people can only create methods of coping to survive the legislated inferior status and that would include any form of reactionary/retaliatory response to the reality imposed by this power dynamic.

In order for one to be “racist,” they must identify with a perception of legislated power associated with the group established as “White” people. This identity, furthermore, is “validated” by “race-science” or the “objective” data to support a framework of racial superiority. A product of European and American aristocracy, “race-science” has established a false concept of separate “races” rather than 1 human race.

“Race-science” serves the purpose of legitimizing a position of legislated superiority in a manufactured “race” called “White” people. Race-science compels a dehumanization of Blackness and maintains a vernacular of distinct and separate human “races” which, by design, places the “White race” always, unquestionably, in the superior position.

The notion of a “White race” is akin to a man-made lake, it is an unnatural artificial creation, manufactured and maintained for a purpose of divide and conquer. As it was in 1681, its original function remains in 2020; It keeps the aristocratic elite safe and secure.

If you self-identify as a member of the “White race” then, by default, you identify with a pseudo-science of genetic superiority. Whether you recognize it or not, as long as you self-identify as a member of the “White race” you are identifying with a domain of legislated power, manufactured to place you in a position of superiority over other human beings.

Race and Racism are manufactured constructs derived from legislation, power, and an enterprise of pseudo-science, all designed for the purpose of dehumanizing other human beings in order to secure status for the aristocratic elite.

Claiming that “Black people can be racist too” implies that there is shared equity on the racial hierarchy. This is antithetical to the creation and purpose of the racial hierarchy. There is no “race-science” that places Black people in a position of “genetic-superiority” over “White” people.

The error made in claiming that non-whites can be racist is in confusing an identity endogenous to the superior position on the racial hierarchy with an identity that is exogenous to the superior position. One identity is generic while the other can only be assimilated.

This leads to a logical definition of racism as any action symptomatic of an identity endogenous to the construct of “White” supremacy in the mythical context of a “racial” hierarchy.

In essence, racism is the operationalization of an identity of “White” racial group membership on the racial hierarchy.

Anyone can be a bigot but bigotry is an assumed attitude that canvases all groups of people while racism is any action that references identity ascribed to superior racial group membership.

While racism is the symptom of White supremacy, an identity that is synonymous with a racial hierarchy (i.e. a racial identity), is the cause.

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