Blog Post IIIII: Reverse Racism

As everyone (hopefully) knows, black people, and all PoC have been oppressed by white people. White people are oppressors. White people cannot experience systematic oppression. This leads me into that reverse racism is not real. There is confusion between, discrimination, prejudice, and racism.  White people can experience prejudice and discrimination, but not racism. Prejudice is basically the feeling/opinion of dislike towards a race, in this case. In a broad case, it is an opinion not based on reasoning or experience. Discrimination is prejudice with actions to go against that group you are prejudice towards.

On the other hand, racism is slightly different, but white people cannot experience racism. Racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Racism is about privilege and power. To include white people have never been oppressed. People of color never had more privilege or power than white people. Racism is a system built on power and oppression. You can not oppress the oppressors. Racism also goes back into history.

Until white people are denied jobs, because they're white, reverse racism is not real. Until white people are denied jobs, because of a hairstyle, reverse racism is not real. Until white people are shamed for their hairstyles, skin, facial features, and then seen others being praised for copying them, reverse racism is not real. Until white people are being seen as only 3/5th  of a person, reverse racism is not real.

Scene from "Dear White People"

                   


Going with this, white people have never been oppressed, and this has been seen. I mean, with the #BlackLivesMatter and everything in that. We've been seeing a lot about innocent black people being killed for the simplest of things, and sometimes for actually doing nothing. (Also with the acts of terrorism recently. Side notes: my heart goes to those affected in all of these.)
Just to name a few unarmed PoC that have been killed.
Tamir Rice (Nov. 22, 2014) was shot and killed while holding a BB gun seconds after being spotted in a park.
Akai Gurley (Nov. 20, 2014) was shot in a dark stairwell unarmed and didn't know what was happening.
Rumain Brisbon (Dec. 2, 2014) was shot to death by police officer who supposedly "mistook" his bottle of pills for a gun.
And there's many more.