Its a term predominantly used by black critics of a black seen as a collaborator with white oppressors of blacks.<p>If it is racist at all, it is racist against <i>whites</i>, as it communicates distaste for a person based on their relationship to another hated group (but even then, its not communicating a problem with their relationship with whites as whites, but with white oppressors as oppressors, so whether its racist against whites is probably questionable.)<p>There&#x27;s scenarios where its use <i>could</i> be a form of paternalistic anti-black racism, such as its use by whites of a particular persuasion to criticize a black defector from white-led political program in favor of an opposing white-led political movement.