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Originally Posted by Reaper16

Part of the deal with discussions of racism is that people use the term to mean different things. Precisely, I'm differentiating between two major definitions. There's an older definition of racism as the belief that a race of people is superior to another race of people because of certain characteristics or etc. In this sense, the lady in this video is correct. Black Americans can hold those prejudices.

Other people use the definition of racism that has evolved over the last half century to mean that which creates, upholds, or reinforces a power system that seeks to unequally distribute rights, resources, and privileges among racial groups. (Increasingly, too, scholarship is coming to agree that race itself is a socially constructed category, meaning the concept of racism came before/created the concept of race rather than racism being some unavoidable byproduct of having different races live together). Importantly, this definition doesn't erase the concepts of prejudice or bigotry.

So if someone barges into a discussion saying "[insert non-white ethnic group here] can be racist too, not just white people!" Well, depending on which definition of racism the discussion group holds to, that comment is going to be met with derision or some "yeah, duh"s.

So racism will always exist because, when one form is eradicated or weakened, it will be redefined. And you're okay with teaching this?