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- What does “white” mean?
- Can People of Color be racist towards white people?
Dr. Darron Smith
Dr. Darron T. Smith is a faculty member at the University of Memphis in the Department of Sociology. He is frequent political and cultural contributor for Huffington Post on various issues of inequality in the form of racism, classism and other systems of U.S. based oppression. He has also contributed to various forums from Religion Dispatches and ESPN's Outside the Lines to The New York Times and Chicago Tribune op-ed sections. Dr. Smith’s research spans a wide myriad of topics on including healthcare disparities, Religious Studies, Race & Sports, Stress & Mindfulness, Transracial Adoption and the Black Family. His current research focuses on healthcare workforce discrimination involving African American physician assistants. His is the author of, When Race, Religion & Sports Collide: Blacks Athletes at BYU and Beyond, was recently released to critical praise in November 2016.
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Thank you for answering my questions for me. Dr. Smith your explanations really put “racism” works. I now understand your statement that “blacks cannot be racist”.
Im a bit of a geek so I like to thin of it like zombies. We all hate zombies we all think they are less. That’s just how it is but when you’re attack or surrounded by several of them the weird more physical power and fear but they are still zombies still less then us.
Dr. Smith you’ve really made being white clear, even though it didn’t seem like much of an answer because being white like you said morphs in such a way as to keep power or stay on top.
Though, I do question your use of negro, in Portuguese it litteraly means black. Could it have gotten lost in translation and changed in to what it is today? I guess I’m asking the entomology on how negro is a made up word. I understood that there were many or at least some Spanish or even Portuguese slavers.
If there were, which I’m pretty sure there were, couldn’t have been a misinterpretation of the word Spanish or Portuguese use for that color?
Ah yes, the same “doctor” Smith that wrote that _because of her conservative politics_ Mia Love was _not black_. Yeah, that’s not racist.