I also find the idea that non-white people can't possibly be racist to be frustrating--where would one get an idea like that? In addition to being false, as you point out, it presents a falsely binary and flat view of race as "white" and "everyone else." (This is also why I sort of dislike the term "person of color," and also because it implies that caucasian people have no skin pigment--I say this as a mixed-race person.)
It also ignores the idea of racism within different ethnic groups. A friend, who is African-American, was recently talking about the divisions within the black community, which persist to this day and consist of lighter-skinned blacks discriminating against darker-skinned blacks.
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Date: 2012-04-20 04:54 pm (UTC)It also ignores the idea of racism within different ethnic groups. A friend, who is African-American, was recently talking about the divisions within the black community, which persist to this day and consist of lighter-skinned blacks discriminating against darker-skinned blacks.
(Or, as they say in Avenue Q, Everyone's a Little Bit Racist. ;) )