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So black people can't be racist? Black people can't be racist. You're young as fuck. Shut up. Let me explain. Play the music. Why black people can't be racist? What Blueface was saying there actually makes a lot of sense if you have spent your entire life hearing people misuse that word. Like if from your childhood to now you understand racism just to mean a person who hates another

person because of the color of their skin, why wouldn't black people be able to be racist? Okay, so what do we do as young men when we feel that tension that he felt in the car? We stay intellectually curious and ask clarifying questions. What's the definition of racism? Good. You're halfway there. What is the definition of racism? Racism is actually a combination of two

things. You need two things to be happening at the same time for it to be considered racist. The first is you need racial prejudice. The second is you need institutional subjugation. These sound like complicated phrases, like they're hard to understand. They're not hard to understand. They're very easy to understand. I'm going to explain them to you. This one just means you need to hate people

because of the color of their skin. Easy money. That's what we call racial prejudice. But once Once you have this, now you need the institutional power to take that prejudice, to take that hate and enforce it into systems. Systems that the person you hate is going to have to run into in their daily lives.

Once you have both of those things, then you have racism. Think about it. Racism is an ism like capitalism like socialism It refers to systems You feel me Actually system is like the first word in the definition of racism Here's an example. In D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, he used white actors in blackface to depict black people as animalistic and dangerous.