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"...adopting the evil people's ideologies and tactics..."
Please tell me when Black people, even the most so-called "racialist" and "bigoted" ones have actually adopted the ideology and tactics of white supremacy. If they had, you would be seeing a whole heap more dead, mutilated and enslaved white people than you do today.
Even the great Nat Turner in the ultra-extreme conditions of chattel slavery spared the lives of one poor white family in the area because as he said "they didn't think any better of themselves than they do of us".
The late Khallid Muhammad was far more extreme in his rhetoric than Ras Marcus or anyone on this board ("Kill the white people. Kill the men. Kill the women. Kill the children. Chop them into little pieces and burn them, then bury the ashes, then dig them up and kill them again cos they didn't die hard enough the first time.") Yet when I saw him speak at the second Million Youth March in NYC, there was a white guy right in the middle of the crowd, jumping around yelling his head off and saying "right on!" every time Khallid talked about the crackers and the fake jews and so on. (Very amusing). No one so much as touched a hair on his head although he got a lot of strange looks. Can you imagine a lone, unarmed Black man showing up in the middle of a KKK or Aryan Nations rally and escaping unscathed?
There is a categorical difference between white racism and the Black REACTION to that racism which you call "racialism" (now that you've admitted that it cannot be called "racism" since Blacks do not have the power to enforce it on whites).
Not saying that Black people cannot be prejudiced and make incorrect generalizations, but it is totally different from white racism, it is not "the ideology and tactics of the evil people". Its basis is self-defense, self-preservation, folk memory and personal experience.
It could be possible for Blacks to be racist to other groups of people than whites, for eg. some Black Americans who might look down on and exploit the labor of undocumented indigenous immigrants who have even less rights than they do in the system (I saw this while I was working with immigrant day laborers- some of whom were Black themselves but spoke Spanish- as part of a community organization a while back).
But as far as white people are concerned, what is really "racialist" is expecting that Black people should just forget about the past 500 years, hell, forget about yesterday, hell, forget about today, and just join the rainbow nation and forget about any sense of identity as a race (no matter how much we are under attack because of our race) because the same set of european scientists who once said race was all-important now say it does not exist (that I happen to more or less agree with them this time around is irrelevant, we're not talking about biology, we're talking about society).
By the way is Bob Marley a "postive" or "negative" elder in your eyes? Rememeber this is the man who was quoted as saying "We nuh want nothing from the white man, the only thing the white man can give us is death" and "Me nuh prejudiced, Black people are superior, and if you're superior, how can you be prejudiced?" and "if dem look pon us as inferior species, we look pon them as nothing." (yeah I know he had plenty other quotes, but he had those ones too).
So what's your verdict, thumbs up or down on Robert Nesta Marley?
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