Now let me start this by saying that I am fully open to hearing any points wanting to be brought up so long as it stays respectful, factual and on topic.

I’ve always had the stance of Racism = Prejudice, and that people of color can also indeed be racist. Upon logging into Facebook for the first time in a couple years, I noticed a couple people from my high school posting very passionately about how “White people can only be racist, people of color can only be prejudice. It’s because to be racist you need a power imbalance.” And so it led to me asking to be educated, while also stating that the use of “White people” in his statements can be seen as quite ironic.

(I’m a very light skinned Chilean here in the states, one look at me you’d call white but my grandmother and her entire side all come from/currently live there. I’m 25% Chilean as my grandmother is a badass woman who immigrated here 50 years ago.)

I wasn’t greeted with anything informative, and instead they repeated what I stated above; “there has to have a power imbalance” and proceeded to mock me for being a “clueless white boy who will never understand” as I was in the process of trying to reach out for answers. The conversation degraded, other people of the Poster came in (all using the term “white boy”) and just parroted the same information as the Poster.

So I’d like to understand if my view of Racism = Prejudice = Cruel is flawed/fundamentally incorrect?