“Only whites can be racist. Has something to do with holding all the power in society.”
You, as well as I, know that this canard is use to justify black-on-white racism in society. White-on-black racism exists, as does black-on-white.
Those that try to promote the canard that blacks cannot be racist try to use the macro model of group politics (whites as a group hold more power than blacks), therefore blacks as a whole or at the individual level cannot be racist.
Whites at the individual level can use racist words, just as blacks at the individual level can use racist words. We have only to look at Rev. Wright to see this. And no one can say that he doesn’t have any power.
A crowd of black people can hurl racist words at one white person. The reverse of this is true, too.
And on and on...
Need I go any further?
Nope.
Rev. Wright attacks whites as a whole. This is clear. he has a history of it.
When we take the case of Rev. Michael Pfleger, (whom Barack Obama in an interview with the Chicago-Sun Times in a 2004 column entitled “Obama: I Have A Deep Faith” said was a spiritual adviser of his), we can see that he attacks whites, and did so from the pulpit of Trinity United.
People like him are welcome at Trinity, but it would seem only if they exhibit a sufficient level of liberal white guilt.