Quote from: Thaj Zezo. on June 02, 2016, 12:45:24 AM
But then you must ask, where does the oppression stem from. If a race is victimised due to the fear and hatred from another race, that's racism. If you discriminate against another race because you feel your race is superior then, you are a racist, no matter what skin colour you are.
Anyone can be racist.
Let's use a mixed race person as an example.
It's moronic and ignorant to say that if they're targeted by white people, it's racism, but if they're targeted by black people, it's not.
The oppression would stem from the racial majority. That same majority would then use resources to exert bias in a way that benefits their group the most, and keeps minorities in check. Institutional racism would be at the macro level of society, and micro racism would be the lower level, belief model one.
In theory, you could say that a black person could be racist...but it really wouldn't benefit them at all because they don't have the same privilege of protection that others may have. Blacks who deny the capability of being racist seem to have an outer locus of control, seeing as they have to depend on other groups for positive outcomes in their lives.