[CobaltBlue]

When I was a kid, if you called a black kid a "nigger" or a "piccaninny", the response would be, "I'd rather be a nigger or a piccanniny than poor white trash."

In other words, we were calling the blacks names for who they were, while they responded by calling us names for how we acted.

I think the same holds true today. Racism is hating someone for who they are. It's not racist to hate someone for how they act.

[Restorer]

I think the same holds true today. Racism is hating someone for who they are. It's not racist to hate someone for how they act.

I agree, but I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you trying to say that what I perceive as black racism is really blacks hating whites for how they act?

If so, I must disagree, since I have frequently been treated in a very hostile manner by blacks I have just met.

Or perhaps you are saying that whites, as a group, have treated blacks, as a group, badly. Therefore blacks, as a group, are fully justified in hating whites, as a group. If so I strenuously disagree, since this sort of grouping is every bit as wrong and evil as hating blacks for their supposed inferiority.