Detroit Rep Bettie Cook Scott Orn Asian Opponent Don't Vote for the Ching-Chong! By Violet Lkonomova August 16 2018 at 1109 AM Comment v Bizarre-Transmission Thettasigma Ferventfox Awesome-Everyday Internetdumpsterfires Black People Can’t Be Racist Ugh Okay the Remark by This Black Woman Was Disrespectful and Based on Race It Was Rude Bigoted and Uncalled for but No in an Anti Black World Black People Do Not Have the Social Political or Systemic Financial Power to Be Racist Racism Implies That Beyond Hurting and Insulting That Asian Woman That This Black Woman Is Connected to a System That Has the Power to Negatively Impact This Woman’s Existence That Dark Skinned Black Woman Who’s an Incumbent Running for State Office Likely Has About the Same Amount of Systemic Power as I Do and Furthermore There Could Be an Argument Made That Deteoit Is Chocolate City and Perhaps She Does Have That Infrastructure of Black Networks to Truly Effect Her Opponent but Idk I Was in Detroit Last Year and It Looks a Lot Like Brooklyn Does Now White and Gentrified White People With Money Who Control Our Political Systems Finances and Predominant Social Narratives Are Claiming Urban Space Like They’re Colonizing Pioneers Looking to Take the New World Detroit Isn’t the Same Anymore Anyway Black People Can Be Shitty Insensitive Bigots but We Do Not Have the Social Capital to Be Racist Particularly Not in the United States “That Dark Skinned Black Woman Who’s an Incumbent Running for State Office Likely Has About the Same Amount of Systemic Power as I Do” Ahahaha No a Congressperson Is the Definition of Systemic Power You Can’t Bitch About Lack of Political Power When We Are Talking About Elected Politician Clearly the World Isn’t So Anti-Black That It Couldn’t Vote Her in Chang Is Also a First Generation American While Scott to My Knowledge Is Not and She Specifically Made Anti-Immigrant Comments She Also Has “power” Within the Context of Her Own Ethnic Community and She Used That Power to Direct Racism Towards Other African-Americans Who Supported Chang by Implying They Were Somehow Traitors Essentially Dictating How They Ought to Act Based on Their Race Particularly Chang’s Husband for His Interracial Marriage I Don’t Give a Flying Fuck What Race You Are Negative Comments About Interracial Marriage and Mixed Race People Are Racist Period End of Story Even if I Did Accept the Prejudice + Power Model or Racism Which I Don’t as That Is Neither the Etymology or Common Usage of the Word Cook’s Comments Would Certainly Fit the Bill She Made Race Based Attacks on People Based on Types of Marginalization That She Is Exempt From and Did So From a Position of Power Partially Gained by the Fact That She Is Exempt From These Types of Discrimination It’s Racist Stop Making Excuses “That Dark Skinned Woman Who’s an Incumbent Running for Office Likely Has About the Same Amount of Systematic Power as I Do” Is This Person on Drugs? They’re Claiming That… a Political Person… a Congresswoman… Has No Power in the Country in Which She Was Elected… by the Populace… as a Politician That or They’re a Politician Too Apparently We Can Say Anything Now and It Makes Sense Huh Also These Remarks Are the Absolute Epitomy of Racism and if Anyone Refuses to See It They’re Not Purely Misinformed They Are Delusional *Literally Calls an Asian Person Ching Chong*“How Dare You Say I’m Being Racist??” Thank You for Attending Today’s Lecture on Cognitive Dissonance