With Sterling’s come-uppance, America has witnessed the reality that for a white person openly to express negative feelings about blacks is virtually “the kiss of death.”
......Question: If an overwhelming majority of Americans condemn whites who make racist statements, when are we going to hold blacks to the same standard?
Are blacks perceived to be racist?
Although polls cannot readily plumb actual racist sentiments, they can tell us if there is a perception that this or that group, or society as a whole, is racist.....According to this poll, 37% of American adults think “most blacks” are racists, compared to 15% who believe the same about “most whites,” and 18% who say that about “most Hispanics.”
Blacks in the poll were more likely to say that “most blacks” are racist (31%), compared to 24% who harbored this view of “most whites,” and 15% who felt that way about “most Hispanics.”
The list of prominent blacks whose racist comments are on record is too long to be adequately cited.
Some blacks have uttered far more egregious racist comments than others.
Calling for the murder of white babies, for example, is a far graver breach of civil talk than asking for the creation of an all-black professional basketball league.
Nevertheless, the “conventional wisdom” among academic social scientists is that blacks cannot be racists. Only whites are racists.
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