Can Blacks Be Racist?
By Keith Boykin, in politics Wednesday, August 16 2006, 12:18PM Time magazine writer Andrew Sullivan and Washington Post staff writer Frank Ahrens have had the same experience. They’ve learned that white people sometimes get called nasty names by black people in inner city neighborhoods. In Sullivan’s example, he reports being called “fa*g*t” quite a few times in the inner city neighborhood he’s lived in for 14 years. Ahrens, meanwhile, reports a recent verbal assault he experienced by a sidewalk saxophonist who told him “white people suck.” That’s disappointing to hear, but not exactly surprising. The ongoing trend of white gay gentrification of previously black family neighborhoods has exposed deep divisions between blacks and whites, and more specifically between blacks and white gay men. It’s also raised a provocative question: Can blacks be racist? Is Black Racism An Oxymoron? I know there’s a widely popular school of thought out there that says black people cannot be racist. That
