An Artificially-Imposed Burden of Choice

Q: Why do people think it's okay to be racist to white people?

Muhammad Rasheed - I’m unconvinced that anyone does think its okay to be racist to white people. I do think it’s important for politically disenfranchised and economically excluded groups to pushback against the anti-Black systemic racism inflicted upon Black people by whites. This is often mistaken for ‘racism’ or ‘reverse racism’ by whites who aren’t comfortable with the pushback and are confused as to how to respond. They oddly tend to interpret the very idea of an equal social-political society—in which they would lose all of their ill-gotten privileges/entitlements over Black people—as a form of ‘hatred,’ which generates questions like this one.