Can Blacks Be Racist?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
They say that social media is instantaneous, Well this one
took a year. Boy did it leave a mark over
the weekend. A video service from a year ago featuring
the father and his two sons on a podcast. The
dad is famous bodybuilder John Brown. The sons made it
to the NFL. One of them is perhaps the best
wide receiver in the NFC, having made four straight Pro Bowls.

(00:23):
At one point in the conversation, son number one asked
Dad how it was that each of his sons were
standout football players, elite athletes.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I believe in breeding. Look at you, good athlete, good athlete.
I'm black.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Then the father admitted that he was taking a risk
by marrying a woman of a different race.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Can keep stepping on it, because you're gonna mess it up,
You're gonna weaken it. If I'm black, I got the
black gold run through my veins.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm just gonna find the right person to meet with
right And if i'm whyam saying let me get one
of these brothers around here. If you want to have athletes.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
So he perceived his mixed marriage as a threat to
his plan of producing a master breed of athlete. Can
you believe such remarkably racist things could be said in
twenty twenty four without widespread condemnation, and then a year
later in twenty twenty five, he was implying the very
thing that Adolph Hitler attempted to do ninety years ago,

(01:18):
and partly over which World War II is fought by Now,
of course, you know Brown, the black man, with his
sons Amon Ray, Saint Brown and Iquaminious Brown and their
white mother Mirriam. And it gets better.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
If you don't have athletes, then just go ahead and
just rade your seat wherever. So why'd you cut it
once with us? Because he could? I know, I didn't
cut it once because he's gold like gold in me.
And Mama got that big chinold. I said, look, big.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Told woman, big Gin, who says, big gin, You gotta
think of this stuff some guys don't think of until later.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Go Okay, Well, the very idea, beyond just its outrage,
conveniently forgets that the world has far more white athletes
than black ones. And if we work premise, then if
you want a smart kid, you need to troll for
a wife at mit nowhere else. I was left with
this recurring issue. Can black people be racist. It's a

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strong intellectual argument. Some would contend rightly that acts of
racism can only come from the majority race because it
has the power and privilege and abuses it. A minority
race cannot be racist because it lacks the power to
designate themselves as superior to another or an act policy.
Others will argue that blacks can easily be just as

(02:33):
racist as whites because racism is an ideology, a belief,
a practice. You don't need power to make that happen.
A group's racial identity shouldn't trump bad behavior. Mister Brown,
I'm not sure his kids buy into this. Practices hatred
toward others based solely on skin color. Hence, is it

(02:54):
fair to argue that anybody can be a racist regardless
of their skin color and you're not born that way.
If you believe all blacks are born thieves and all
whites are born racist, you were taught that, which means
you also have a lot to learn.