American pop culture hasn't done that in decades, and if we're going to all agree to a standard, we have to hold to that standard the most strongly when it's most tempting not to. Black people cannot be allowed to be more racist than white people. If they are, it makes impeachable, it makes vulnerable to accusations of hypocrisy, the fight against racism.
Racism anywhere supports racism everywhere; it gets transmitted along the same wires that make other kinds of Americans care at all about African-Americans: the links all Americans share by being that.
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Date: 2007-04-19 06:22 pm (UTC)Racism anywhere supports racism everywhere; it gets transmitted along the same wires that make other kinds of Americans care at all about African-Americans: the links all Americans share by being that.