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"When Cultural norms are used by an individual of color to oppress another individual of color, it is in my opinion bigotry or prejudice."
I agree and disagree.
Bigotry to me is racism, bigots are racists. Being prejudiced against people you dont know personally and have no intention to get to know or understand from afar and judge based on prejudiced assumptions you make is racist. To me being black doesnt mean you cant be a racist. If you are black, and own a business, for example, if you refuse to hire Asians simply because theyre Asian, that is racist. If you see an Indian man and go, nope, hate the accent, not hiring him, or a Chinese man and say nope, hes gonna bring seafood to work everyday dont wanna smell it, or idk, anything along the lines of a white person saying theyre not gonna hire some black man because he may give his homies the code to the register and wear a doo rag to work everyday, the scenarios are hardly different, a racist is a racist. Its bigotry, yes, and its showing prejudice, yes. Its also racist.
To me refusing to hire some based on their race is being a Racialist....a bigoted Racialist.
Since blacks as a group cannot impose laws to oppress any any other group it is not racism
Without laws and customs to support this behavior, to me it fails to me one of the requirements of racism.
Since it is not a group action meant to oppress another group, to me it fails to meet the criteria of racism
Again, "Racism to me is when a person/group of people judge, condemn, torture, mistreat, violate, devalue, unnessecarily criticize, or come to conclusions (esp. disrespectful and overtly stereotypical ones) about another person/group of people based solely on their skin color."
I recognize and accept that that is your opinion and they way you use those words, and in that sense you are right.
The point I am trying to make is that, since the 1960's lexicographers have conflated and confused the words Racism and Racialism so that the oppress can also be accuse of Racism. While in actual fact they can only be bigots or prejudicial.
You also said "Blacks as a group lack the political and or economic power to execute laws and customs of hate much less to promote and support them in such away to to significantly affect any other group."
True, blacks arent likely to hold any group of people down the way we're put down, but that doesnt change the fact that I can make my neighbors life miserable doing racist stuff to her. I wont bring down all the Mexicans in Mexico, but me letting that one Mexican woman know shes trash to me just cause shes Mexican is just as bad. What if her kids were to hear? What if it affects her clarity of mind at work, messing up her money, her psyche, her kids' college fund? Is any racism toward blacks that people spewed in her life now justified? Did I just create a racist by being racist? Its evil, mean, and stupid whether its me individually being racist to a person or a group of people systematically going against another group. Black people cannot say they cant be guilty of racism, that is racist.
Then You are a Bigot......Racial bigot
A Racist is one who use the institutions and structures of racism to further enhance his group power over another group. The Individual acts of a Racist is the institutionalization and structural edifices by which political and social power benefits the oppressor and his group whilst ensuring the oppression and destruction of the other group
How would one black oppressing one Mexican enhance Blacks as a group or oppress Mexicans as a group?
Racism implies power to impose your will through legal and cultural means as a group on the life and experience of another group of people
Were all human. Some people are good, some bad, some are just weird. We have similar flaws and feelings, and thats across the board. We all feel love, jealousy, pain, some of us show empathy better than others. Some of us are artists and some are not. Some are sexists and some are racists and some are not... If you put race on any of those feelings/emotions/behaviors/flaws youre denying the equalities we share as people, suggesting you are superior to racists, incapable of feeling what they feel, except maybe to an alleged lesser degree via (bigotry, prejudice). Is that denial not racist?
No.... to me that denial is being Racial
Being Racial means you accept as true the idea that their is more that One human race and to support this idea you use Phenotype, culture, creed and sometimes nationality, to which you ascribe various stereotypes , qualities and values as to worth, character and meaning.
You see the lexicographers knew that if you control the meaning of words you can can control the understanding of how people frame issues in their minds. If you can frame the way people see the issues of the day.....then you can dictate the outcome. - Hence they can make affirmative actions becomes Racist in the eyes of some blacks.