Saying Black People Cannot Be Racist is an Insult…
…to Black People
There is a sentiment in today’s American society that goes something like this…Black People Cannot be Racist.
I’ve heard this more and more recently as BLM began its destructive march through American cities and classrooms.
Click on any Black Liberal or Progressive website and one will see that prevailing notion threaded throughout the articles.
I was reminded of this poisonous thought over the last few weeks as I saw the reaction to Iowa’s Caitlin Clark’s record breaking performances.
Instead of celebrating the increased attention being shown to women’s college basketball, a number of black female basketball legends decided to take shots at Clark.
With the insinuation being that it was because of the lower amount of melanin in her skin which is contributing to her hype.
The LA Times published a piece that went further.
It said that the comments made by Sheryl Swoopes, a legend in women’s college basketball who’s black, were not racist.
The justification: Black People do not have power, so therefore they can’t be racist.
The writer used the Kerner report commissioned by Lyndon Johnson after the riots in Detroit to buttress his argument.
While the Kerner report does separate racism from prejudice on the basis of a power dynamic, that report does not exempt black people from being racist.
When liberals and progressives say black people cannot be racist because of power, we have to understand two things: that is a Marxist argument and it is insulting to black people.
Marxism divides people based on a power dynamic. It’s the classic bourgeois versus proletariat.
In America, it’s whiteness versus blackness.
Because of systems of inequality, they say, Black People are in a state of oppression.
And since Power is the deciding factor in racism, Black People cannot be racist.
That is an insult to Black People.
That argument essentially says Black People do not have our own individual agency.
It implies that Black People do not have the same rights as others. That we have not been blessed by God with the same abilities as others.
What an insult!
Power does not determine if a person is racist.
The heart does.
Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?“
Jesus said that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Racism is a spirit of division. Division based upon a man made construct.
It is rooted in sin.
Because of that, all humans can be racist.
Even Black People. We are human.