“Every night in Basic Training, I got beat up by a big, Black bully.” is considered to be a racist statement, although it is the literal truth.
“Every night in Basic Training, I got to beat up a privileged little White boy. Black Power!” is not considered a racist statement.
Any statement involving race made by a white person is considered racist, regardless of the content, but no statement involving race made by a black person is racist, no matter how egregious.
“There were no Black students in my high school,” is racist, but, “There were no White students in my high school,” is not racist, because both statements are seen as expressions of White privilege. But the fact is, not all Whites are privileged, and not all Blacks are victims.
Black actors portraying historically White people are progressive, while White actors portraying Blacks, even fictional ones, are racists. Blacks who “passed” as White are commended for coming out, but Whites, who appear in blackface once, are damned for the rest of their lives.
We live in a profoundly racist society. If you are White, you are a racist by definition, but if you are Black, you cannot be a racist, no matter what you do or say. This is bullshit. The two most racist organizations in America today are the KKK and the NAACP. The differences between them are great. The KKK is criminal, violent, and secretive, while the NAACP is legal, open, and political. I greatly prefer the NAACP, even though I am White, because I detest violent, criminal bullies. But both organizations were specifically formed to advance the cause and power of one race over all others. In other words, they are racist.
There are NO neutral statements. “Every night in Basic Training I got beat up by a bully” seems to be neutral, since no race is involved. But when it is learned that the bully was Black and I am White, the statement becomes racist in retrospect, even though I was careful to exclude all such references, because Blacks have been beat up by Whites with impunity for centuries, and have not even been allowed to complain. So my statement of plain fact, with no judgement and no indication of race, becomes an historically racist statement. There is no way to describe or refer to race neutrally.
This limits my options for dialog with Black people. I can listen to them. That’s fine. But the moment I open my mouth, anything I say can and will be held against me. It is very hard to find a Black person who is willing to have an equal dialog with a White man. If I once had a Black girlfriend (which I did), it’s assumed it was I who broke up with her, and that I did it because she was Black. If I have a Black friend, it’s assumed I am acting out of White guilt. Jews, Chinese, and Native Americans can have friends of different races, and they’re just friends. Why not Blacks?
Please don’t bring up slavery. Jews (like me) were slaves long before Blacks, longer than Blacks, and much more recently than Blacks, and are still objects of racial persecution today, even by Blacks. The first slaves imported into America were NOT Black. They were Irish. Really. By the thousands. You don’t even hear about it today. Chinese and Native Americans were also enslaved, and even subjected to genocide, which is arguably worse than mere slavery. Yet neither the Irish, the Jews, the Chinese, nor the Native Americans see everything in light of their race. Only Blacks make neutral dialog with other races impossible. Why is that? Can someone please tell me?
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