White people are so desperate to assuage themselves of the guilt of being associated with their racist skinfolk that they will put themselves through every variety of mental gymnastics to imagine a balanced playing field between “extremists on either side.”
There are definitely Black people who hate white people on sight. I’ve heard them at cookouts and on the street corner and in my mentions. And that’s where they remain.
White people who hate Black people run the country.
Racist white people are elected officials, police officers, and judges. A few of our uncles saying “kill whitey” does NOT compare to white politicians seeking to disenfranchise us, judges sentencing us to prison for longer terms, and cops planting drugs on us or killing us with impunity.
The scales are not balanced. Black extremists do not perpetuate the cycle of racism in the United States because they do not have the power to do so. For every single hotep railing against The Man or every single loudmouthed “cracka this, cracka that” uncle at the family barbecue, there are ten racist white people with the power to legally deprive us of life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. And that power is granted to them explicitly by the jobs they hold in government and law enforcement, but it is also granted to them by dint of being white. Picture a “racist” Black woman claiming a calm white man in a suit is threatening her. Now picture a racist white woman claiming a calm Black man in a suit is threatening her. Only the prejudice of one of those people is life threatening to the other party.
If you are a “tolerant” white person who just wants everyone to get along and put aside our differences — stop saying it to Black people. The people reacting TO racism are in no way comparable to the people enacting that racism in the first place.
If you stab me in the neck, and I watched people who look like you stab people who look like me in the neck for the past 400 years, and I get frustrated and cut your your finger with a pocketknife, there is no both sides argument. You tried to kill me. I cut your finger. Neither of us should have done that, but how can you possibly equate the two?
That’s racism in America. White people keep stabbing us in the neck and their “let’s get along” skinfolk want us to put away our pocketknives.
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