Can Afro-Americans be racist?

What I found interesting in the around Adria Richards, was that the majority seemed to focus on a basic definition on racism. This made me rethink my previous assumptions. I want to discuss in (-:prog:-) if Afro-Americans can be truly racist to the majority conservative white population. I believe it would be a fallacy to think a Afro-American can be racist toward a white conservative male, seen in the light that the former does not belong to a majority and is thus not equally valued in terms of power and influence. What do you think (:prog:)

It is important to understand the nature of statistics when talking about very large populations. It is also important to properly classify what racism is when trying to compose objective conclusions about a complex field like sociology.

I would separate racism into aggressive and reactive racism and would make some attempt to determine the intensity of these types of racism. By aggressive racism I mean racism that is motivated by abstract theories largely unrelated to everyday life, theories that may have been put out to justify slavery, abuse of black workers or use bigotry as a political tool. By reactive racism I mean racism that is in reaction to certain experiences such as verbal abuse by another race or seeing members of the other race in poverty and reacting to the increased stress they display. The key difference is how their racism was predominately triggered or sustained, though it is possible for an aggressive racist to develop a confirmation bias due to the propaganda and develop a degree of reactive racism or a reactive racist who has had negative experiences with another race to seek out propaganda and develop aggressive racism I expect the initial trigger to be the ever-present social force defining their particular type of racism.

Can Afro-Americans be racist?
Statistically, as a proportion, I would expect that Afro-Americans are less likely to be aggressively racist, however they may be more reactively racist in reaction to racism directed against them.

Around 66% of the population is white and 15% is black, if 1% of these groups are aggressively racist that means there is 44 white aggressive racists per 1000 black people and 2 black aggressive racists per 1000 white people, with 22 times more whites acting racist without prompt you would expect a correspondingly large number of blacks to become racist in a reaction to this. This triggers a vicious cycle, only a small proportion of racists in the majority is needed to cause a proportionately larger reaction among the minority, this larger proportion of racists and racist attitudes in the minority in turn reinforces racism among the majority causing an escalation.

The solution would be to focus on preventing aggressive racism in the majority and preventing reactive racism in the minority.