Depends on how you define "racism." If you define it simply as racial prejudice then yes, without a doubt it's not just possible, but common. If you define it as systemic, institutionalized racial prejudice then it becomes more difficult, but not impossible.
For instance consider a man like Clarence Thomas or Colin Powell, or a woman like Condoleeza Rice ...
Then one must also consider countries where people of color are the majority and thus part of the power structure within those nations ...
Yeah, I completely agree with all your points. Those are exactly the sort of arguments I usually use when confronted with argument that <racism = prejudice + power thus only 'whites' can be racists>.
Looks like a typical conservative witch-hunt to expose "Black racism" amongst left-wingers. See that shit all the time in this country. She should not have made the comment but she apologized for it and seemed to recognize why it was wrong, so end of fuckin story as far as I'm concerned, but of course the British Right won't let it be the end of the story, cause, like I said, seems like a right-wing witch-hunt to me.
Not sure if she really apologised, at least not in a sense that she understands why her comments were a simplistic generalization.
She claimed that her tweet was a reference to 19th century 'European' colonialism. However in her tweet she clearly used present tense - "White people love playing "divide & rule" We should not play their game."
On top of that saying that there was such a thing as European colonialism (which implies universality) is a simplistic generalization in itself. Only a few of the most powerful European nations engaged in colonialism.
She has quite a history of making 'interesting' comments though. Among other things she told a black studies conference in Philadelphia that ‘the British invented racism’ and attacked her local hospital for employing 'blonde, blue-eyed Finnish girls'. Apparently they were unsuitable as nurses because they had 'never met a black person before'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LxRqMJHG56A
Topic: Are you racist?