So not a hate crime?

[kandrathe]

Saying blacks are responsible for their own "individual racism" doesn't make any more sense than saying women are responsible for not getting raped/sexually harassed by men.

No. It would be like saying it is impossible for women to be the perpetrators of sexual harassment. Your argument regarding racism, if applied to women would be "women are incapable of sexual harassment, since men traditionally wield all the power."

Race scholars Howard Winant and Michael Omi define racism as a way of representing or describing race that “creates or reproduces structures of domination based on essentialist categories of race.” This is in the context of questioning if there is even any such thing as "race". In biological terms, we all are a mixture of different DNA's and have accumulated different population traits by surviving in different places.

So, if "Race" exists, it does so only as a sociological construct. In the sociological definition, racism is about much more than race-based prejudice. In a sociological context then, an imbalance in power and social status is generated by how we understand and act upon race. In other words, it could be argued that the belief that there actually different "races" would be racist.

When any person "acts" against another based upon their perception of this belief in "race", the they are perpetuating racism.

From Avenue Q: “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.”

Part of it goes like this:

Look around and you will find
No one’s really color blind.
Maybe it’s a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgments
Based on race.