‘To be white is to be racist, period,’ a high school teacher told his class

I think I understand what the teacher in this instance was trying to say, I will highlight the key passage in the quote below:

Quote:

Am I racist? And I say yeah. I don’t want to be. It’s not like I choose to be racist, but do I do things because of the way I was raised. To be white is to be racist, period"

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But he has fallen into a very old trap, one of letting his eloquence run away with him. I have read about similar things happening in Spain during the period of the Spanish Inquisition. One of the more common things in their files is priests getting into the pulpit and accidentally blaspheming, while trying to glorify the Angels or the Virgin Mary.

I can also see why some students would be very offended by this. There are any number of pundits who argue that only 'white people' can be racist because they 'have the power'.

I myself once confronted an Australian Aboriginal woman who was abusing Asian students on a bus and part of her attempts to deflect my criticism was a statement to the effect that she was 'part white' and that the abuse was her '...white blood talking...' (Eg Racism is genetic...)

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