I see that the original comment must have been edited to remove something about racism, but I have to add this elaboration because it so often gets missed:<p>Of course anyone can be racist, but when the white people have nearly all of the economic and political power, and the black people have nearly none, <i>it doesn&#x27;t matter if black people are racist, because there are no structures to support that</i>.<p>Or, put another way, black people might call me &quot;cracker&quot; or &quot;white boy&quot; or whatever, and hate me because I&#x27;m white, but I can still walk into a bank and get a home loan.  I was never red-lined out of living in a neighborhood at first sight.