Federal civil rights charges unlikely against police officer in Ferguson shooting

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241. My definition is from Cazenave, and is very widely understood in political and sociological contexts

Admittedly this board may not be one of those, but the poster making the claim isn't just pulling it out of nowhere; it's a well-understood and highly cited definition of racism as participation in a system of racial privilege rather than an attitude. Frankly it's why half of the time someone calls someone else racist the two are talking past one another (and a reason I personally try to figure out another word to use). I just don't think the claim that "no black person can be racist" should be met with as much shock as it seemed to get here; the systemic model of racism is very well-known and rather highly regarded for the most part.

Unlike ethnicity, "race" is a legal and political concept to begin with, so it shouldn't be surprising that racism is a legal and political rather than emotional or cognitive state.