Kristof: Racism Without Racists

I ran across a New York Times piece by columnist Nicholas D. Kristof called “Racism Without Racists”. He supports, in a grey, watered-down way, what I have been saying about white people – even though he is white himself. Instead of making absolute statements based on personal experience, like I tend to do, he makes […]

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Accidental Racist

“Accidental Racist” (2013) is a song by white country-rock singer Brad Paisley. In it he defends wearing the “red flag”, the Confederate flag under which General Robert E. Lee defended the American South’s right to keep blacks in iron chains as slaves. It features black rapper LL Cool J, who says stuff like this: I […]

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What they do not teach you about anti-racism at American high school

America has a proud history of anti-racism – like the Declaration of Independence, abolitionists, Nat Turner, the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation, the Radical Republicans, Reconstruction, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr, the civil rights movement, Malcolm X, […]

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American racism against blacks

America has a black president and famous black people like Muhammad Ali, Oprah and Beyoncé. It has a large black middle-class. Black America makes more money than any country in Africa – even more than Nigeria with its oil or South Africa with its diamonds and gold. Yet: The average black person compared to the […]

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Arab racism against blacks

American and British travellers in the 1800s and 1900s, like Malcolm X, were surprised at the lack of racism among Arabs. Ali Rattansi in “Racism: A Very Short Introduction” (2007) says of Arabs: Disparaging conceptions of other peoples and a colour symbolism associating whiteness with goodness and blackness with negative qualities are evident in many […]

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The white racist guide to writing history

This is a work in progress: All the world is a white stage - Even though whites have never been more than a third of mankind, white history is what matters. Thousands of years of history in India, China, Africa and so on do not matter apart from their Colonial Period and Contributions to Mankind. But […]

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The three kinds of white racists

Commenter JT asked: Could you post on the differences between white bigots, white implicit racists, and whites with integrity? It would be interesting to read your take on the different types, the frequency with which each occur and maybe a prescription how each can be recognized and/or addressed. Here is how I understand the three […]

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Kumbaya anti-racism

Kumbaya anti-racism (c. 1970- ) is where racism is fought by not talking about race, by not seeing people’s skin colour, by not saying certain words or expressing certain thoughts out loud that are politically incorrect. People often quote Martin Luther King, Jr in support: I have a dream that my four little children will one day […]

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John Mohawk: Racism: An American Ideology

“Racism: An American Ideology” (1977) is an essay by John Mohawk (Sotsisowah), an Iroquois scholar of the late 1900s and leader of the Seneca. In it he says that imperialism, genocide and colonialism grow out of racism which in turn grows out of the nature of Western civilization. Western civilization is based on cities which are […]

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“Blacks are just as racist!”

“Blacks are just as racist as whites if not more so!” It is a common thing whites in America say. I do agree that blacks are racist, but just as racist? No way! Not even close. For example, blacks have not: Kidnapped millions of whites at gunpoint and sold them into slavery. Worked whites to death […]

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The white racist guide to talking to blacks about race

How to talk to black people about race as ably shown by the white racists on this blog: Things to know:  Blacks are emotional thinkers – They are not objective and neutral like white people. They do not care about facts and reasons. They are like children: they measure truth by their feelings. They see […]

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Whites who fear blacks are racist

Whites who fear blacks are racist. The statement almost proves itself. Because they are not fearing honest-to-God robbers, murderers, rapists, scam artists and so on, the very people who would hurt them, white or black or whatever, but just black people. It should be laughable but too many Americans take it seriously. Whites and other non-blacks […]

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Grada Kilomba on racism in Europe

Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese psychiatrist, writer and scholar with roots in São Tomé and Príncipe in West Africa. She teaches at the Free University in Berlin. In her book “Plantation Memories” (2008) she wrote about stories of everyday racism – like about hair or the n-word – from a psychoanalytical point of view. A […]

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Racist White Teen Girls Goes On A Rant About Blacks

“Racist White Teen Girls Goes On A Rant About Blacks” (2012) is a YouTube video by two well-to-do white girls from Gainesville, Florida in which they give their racist opinions about black people. No mere slip of the lip, they hold forth for 14 minutes, even correcting commenters who disagree with their racist views. They […]

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Is this blog racist?

Is this blog racist? Are my blog posts prejudiced against whites? Many White American commenters seem to think so. Some go so far as to say it is like a black Stormfront (the Klan website). The reasons given come down to these as best as I can tell: Generalizations: To make any general statement about whites is stereotyping […]

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