I thought only White people could be racist and that Black people could not be racist, because Black people as a group did not have power. I thought Latinx, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Native people could not be racist, because their racial groups did not have power. I conflated the (structural) term “racism” with the (individual) term “racist.” I conflated Black people as a group with a Black individual. Black people, as a group, have not had enough power (or desire) to institutionalize policies that put Black people on the higher end of inequities, while justifying their higher status by
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