Racial Minorities Can Be Racist Too
Posted on | May 3, 2006
While checking out Michelle Malkin’s racism du jour, I ran across her implied attack on University of Minnesota professor Susana De Leon. De Leon made a comment at a pro-immigration rally calling caucasians "wet backs" which is normally a derogatory term used to describe Mexicans and is in reference to crossing the Rio Grande. I think Michelle put the story up in order to show one more element of the extreme left for which she groups anyone who dares disagree with her using the oh-so-creative label "moonbat". I have largely avoided the immigration debate because I do not feel I have enough facts to weigh in and thus must remain neutral on the issue.
However Malkin does raise an interesting issue in quoting a KSTP news report about De Leon’s remarks. The report states that De Leon says it is impossible for minorities to be racist against caucasians. I am sorry, I am for full racial equality, diversity, and all that jazz but that statement is complete and utter bullshit. Members of racial minorities can be racist just as much, if not more, than caucasians. Anyone Latino, African-American, Asian, Native American or any other racial minority who uses terms like "Cracker" and "Honkey" is no less guilty of racism than are people who use terms like "nigger", "jap", "spic" and so forth. De Leon, and others who think like her, mistake personal racism with institutional racism. Institutional racism requires power to back it up. During the era of things like segregation here in the US and Apartheid in South Africa, caucasians had the power in order to institutionalize their racist policies until the US Supreme Court stepped in and the Apartheid government fell.
Malkin, herself an Asian American, stands as living proof that members of racial minorities can be and in fact are racist. Margaret Cho, another Asian American, took note in a blog entry entitled In Defense of Michelle Malkin. Cho notes:
"She is living proof that bigotry has gone multicultural. She claims that the comparison of internment to the current racial profiling of Arabs and Arab Americans is unfair and a foolhardy tool of the left, who are gambling with the safety of America in order to remain politically correct. Advocating racism in order to secure our borders is part of life during a war, and Malkin is here to remind us again and again how we are at war."
And not only does Michelle Malkin prove to us that racism knows no ethnicity when it comes to finding a home, she also profits from it
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