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DAngelo136

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2. A quote from the late Kwame Toure
Sun Sep 2, 2018, 11:07 PM
Sep 2018

"If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
Racism gets its power from Capitalism.
Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist.
The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude."

To that logic, to call me, a Black man, "racist" is an impossibility because I don't have power to affect the lives and livelihood of white people. We as a people do not have the power in society to impose our prejudices upon whites. So their use is akin to the claim of "reverse racism" and "playing the race card"-a rhetorical device used in an effort to devalue and minimize claims of racism.

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