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Originally posted by neicy81
History has everything to do with it. Partly, because whites don't like to acknowledge that things happened and blacks still continue to suffer from it. A black person can not be RACIST. Racism involves POWER. Prejudice involves having a bias against someone.Know the difference.Read a book. PERIOD.
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The statement you made about "whites don't like to acknowledge that things happened" is wrong. If that was true, then the history books that I had in school would have been a lot shorter than they were. I think white people have done very well at taking responsibility for prior racist acts, laws, etc in this country. So please don't try and tell me that we're not acknowledging things that happened.
Also, please don't act as if black people don't have any POWER in this country. If you really believe that, then you are fooling yourself. I'm not saying that racism doesn't exist. It certainly does, and many black people are still faced with discrimination to this day. However, many white people are faced with racism from blacks also. It IS a two-way street. There is NO difference. Racism is racism and it doesn't matter who is on the recieving end. It's bad regardless.