[ACC25065]

Many whites say and do racist things all the time that are just blithely passed over or excused away. You have teams named Redskins and Chiefs, and you teach your children to do ‘the Tomahawk Chop.’ You sing racist nursery rhymes like ‘Eeny Meeny Miny Mo’ and ‘Ten Little Indians’ to small babies. You buy and sell products with racist images like Aunt Jemima and Land o’ Lakes Butter. Some of you actually think saying ‘Make a run for the border’ and laughing at the Taco Bell chihuahua are cute and fun instead of sickening and hateful. At the same time, racism by non-whites is dealt with far more harshly than that of whites, in my view. I’ve never heard ANYONE saying ‘black racism is OK’ except for a few actual black racists. A black rapper’s racism is condemned far more harshly than Guns n’ Roses singing ‘Police and Niggers/ Get out of my way/ Don’t want to buy none/ Of your gold chains today’. The entire U.S. Congress condemned Farrakhan in a resolution, something that no one has even proposed for David Duke. I’m certainly not defending nonwhite racism; it’s every bit as morally wrong as white racism. But nonwhite racism is also far less dangerous, because of numbers and relative power. Yet nonwhite racism gets far harsher treatment and condemnation, precisely because it threatens white power and privilege as much as anti-racism does.

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Name : ACC25065, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : W. Lafayette, State : IN, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad student, 

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