Doesn’t matter what you recognize, calling someone a racist is attacking them on the basis of their race. Even if they are a racist. People aren’t racist to their own race.
Why? People should not assume. If I say something derogatory to an individual person who happens to be white because they are an awful person, no one will bat an eye. If I say something derogatory to and individual black person because they happen to be an awful person, some people will automatically assume I am a racist.
That is unfair, but it’s a perception based on the history of racism in this country. What it takes to move past that falls on the shoulders of everyone. I’m arguing that white people, as a whole, have a greater responsibility to acknowledge, educate, and grow when it comes to race and racism in this county.
That’s a very good observation. From my experience, even living in North East Jersey, that’s very common. ALL people generally feel more comfortable with people of their own race, and congregate as such. In that sense we are truly a melting pot.
White people aren’t teaching their children that people of a specific race are holding them back, other races are. Black people themselves say blacks are the most racist group in America in polling.