Agreed. Well, by the current definition of “racist.” I’ve seen a surprising percentage of white people in my life, who used to have no time for racist claims, change their tune to, “Well, he’s still wrong to be racist, but when you see this many black people calling for a lynching, I can understand where he’s coming from.”
I think there needs to be a new term added in conjunction when using the term, “racism”; justified and unjustified. To diffuse it just give the reason why. How can they argue with the truth or how you feel? It also airs it out in the open and gives them have a fair chance to address it.