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Can non-white people be racist?
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There is this kid down the hall who is Latino, and I do not feel comfortable around him at all, because of the stuff he says about white people.  I feel like he's a racist against whites, if there's such a thing.  

He almost constantly makes jokes about white people, and he has a few friends who are white, but I'd guess most of his friend are Latino or black.  He even went so far to say to me while we were talking that he that "the bar owners throw us Latinos out of the clubs cuz all the girls want to dance with us, and not their white boyfriends.  If you can't dance, you shouldn't be dating."  

It's getting to the point where I don't even talk to him anymore, because he's so incredibly cocky and arrogant.  He was getting on my case for a joke I'd made about a Middle Eastern professor of mine and how I couldn't understand what he was saying, and I just got angry and told him that to shut up and quit the racist crap, just drop it.  

Am I being wrong here?  It's painful to be in a conversation with him, because he always manages to work in another way that Latinos are superior to the other races.  Once I told him that he was making stereotypes by saying that "there is no such thing as a shy Latino," but he replied that he's allowed to make stereotypes about his own race.  



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anyone can be racist

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Quote: from falling angel13 at 12:37 am on Feb. 4, 2006

anyone can be racist

yup what she said

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even racist against white people?  i thought it was racism when the majority is mean to the minority, maybe i'm confusing that with something else.  

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Yeah, anyone can be and he is being racist against latinos ( I'm a Cuban btw,) by making stretrotypes about them. And sure he can do it, it is a free country, but he's just being a hypocrite. If you really want to get serious about race, and don't want to be racist in the least, then you'd see all humans as the HUMAN RACE and not as a bunch of different races. I'm sorry though, he sounds really annoying.

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Quote: from holysaiyan1 at 12:42 am on Feb. 4, 2006

even racist against white people?  i thought it was racism when the majority is mean to the minority, maybe i'm confusing that with something else.  

No, it's still racism.  

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I have heard plenty of people be racist, including non-white people. It just seems to be more common for white people to be racist, I guess.

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yes of course anyone can be

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The definition for racism is:

a form of discrimination based on race, especially the belief that one race is superior to another. Racism may be expressed individually and consciously, through explicit thoughts, feelings, or acts, or socially and unconsciously, through institutions that promote inequality between races.

So... it can occur when a person/people of any race believe they are better than another or dicriminate against another, it doesn't matter whether the person being racist is black, white or purple!


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Thanks everyone, I guess I needed that cleared up for me.  BTW yes, he is, and I feel threatened by him sometimes, by how much he seems to depise white people.  He uses "gringo" and "white-eyes" a lot with his friends, and I sometimes feel offended by what he's saying, but know better than to confront him when he's with his "posse".  Thanks a lot =)

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It just seems to be more common for white people to be racist, I guess.

Ironic, because although it's common sentiment, it's a racist perception, isn't it?

Setting the definition of racism along lines of skin color would the most counter-productive thing I have ever heard of. There are people who honestly think, "Only white people can be racist," but in saying that, they have become part of a problem. Similarly, racism for or against your own race is still racism.

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Quote: from Ahsatan6996 at 11:41 pm on Feb. 3, 2006

Quote: from falling angel13 at 12:37 am on Feb. 4, 2006

anyone can be racist

yup what she said


Whites can be racist towards Blacks, Asians, Latino, etc. And vice versa. Anyone can be racist towards anyone, of any color or race.

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I'm going to come out and say that I am non-white and a bit racist towards whites. I'm not comfortable around them, I always feel as if they will be racist towards me....

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it doesnt mater what color u are, anybody could be racist
like dogs being racist aginst cats, they dont like them

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