Explicit racism

A lot of people have tried to oversimplify racism as white people against any other race. To combat racism, we are supposed to pit every race against people who are white. To combat racism, we must embrace racism.

Racism is not a one-way concept. Yes, hating white people qualifies as racist. Yes, that includes white people who hate white people. Of course, this is still an oversimplification. There are different components of how people think about people of different races. Most people will end up with racial biases that include both positive and negative components.

I'm not saying this to defend racism against minorities. The problem is that pitting races against each other is not a valid long-term approach to addressing racial tensions. We have been trying that for the last decade, and it has predictably corresponded with a decline in race relations.

The idea behind a lot of this is that white people tend to develop implicit racism against minorities. Again, this is an oversimplification. There is some validity in the sense that it's human nature to develop biases. To counter this, we have insisted that we need to hate white people who develop implicit racism. We have to hate white people.

A lot of this intentional racial divisiveness isn't subtle. I read an article that insisted that Asians should join black people in their fight against whiteness. In other words, Asians should embrace explicit racism to address implicit racism. Perhaps the worst part of this is where I found it. It was through a link provided by the Washington Education Association. This is an organization with a lot of influence over children, and they are openly promoting explicit racism.