The Oxford Dictionary:
RACISM:
1. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
1.1 The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
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WHITE SUPREMACY or WHITE SUPREMACISM is the RACIST belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them.
BLACK SUPREMACY or BLACK SUPREMACISM is a racial supremacist belief which maintains that black people are superior to people of other races.
SUPREMACISM is an ideology which holds that a particular class of people is superior to others, and that it should dominate, control, and subjugate others, or is entitled to do so. The supposed superior class of people can be an age, race (classification of humans beings) species, ethnicity, religion, gender, (social construct), sexuality, language, ideology, nation, or culture, or any other part of a population.
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But we don’t really need to research definitions here, do we? Racism is well understood in common usage to be making reference to racial differences in order to antagonize or demean people. We don’t need a definition of a 'racist attack' because it CARRIES A FEELING WITH IT -- an extremely unpleasant feeling -- and you know when you’ve experienced one. Its intent is crystal clear even if attempts are made to disguise it with nuanced language.
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“[Marcus] Garvey still believed wholeheartedly in the fallacy of biological racial distinctions–in there being such a thing as Black blood and White blood. He thereby joined with eugenicists and Klansmen in looking down on biracial people and light-skinned people, in hailing President Warren G. Harding when he said in 1921: ‘racial amalgamation there cannot be.’ Instead of viewing light-skinned Blacks as naturally equal to dark-skinned Blacks from an antiracist standpoint, Garvey fashioned the other less acknowledged ideological side of colorism. Garvey more or less looked down on light-skinned Blacks as inferior, holding dark-skins as the standard of Blackness, as some Black power activists did fifty years ago, and as some Black activists do today....Garvey advocated Black racial purity, opposing interracial reproduction due to the intrusion of different White blood.”
- Ibram X. Kendi , African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
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As a RastafarI who has been on this trod following H.I.M. & His Teachings for well over four decades, I&i refuse to ever have to carry a color chart with me (like i did to describe the color of soil and rock during field studies), to determine what a person's proper race classification is, because as far as my love, respect & interactions with a fellow human being goes, I&i couldn't care less what their skin shade or racial classification is.
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