"My brother was shot by a Black dude in Richmond when we were growing up."
"I went to high school with mostly Latino kids in Texas. They called me 'guera' because I was White."
"Throughout my childhood I was exclusively bullied by Black and Muslim kids, who always seemed to own the schoolyard."
These are examples offered this week as evidence that White people are victims of racism too.
I am committed to validating any given person's lived experience as true.
That said, individual acts of prejudice, bullying, discrimination, hatred, othering, marginalization, shooting, teasing, or any other less-than-ideal approach to interacting with other human beings does not prove that there is "reverse racism."
Racism is about power.
Racism is a system intentionally invented and rigorously maintained to put so-called White people on top and everybody else beneath them—thus the term "White supremacy."
Racism is more than individual acts of violence and discrimination—no matter how harmful, hurtful, or frequent they may be.
Until any non-White racial group has the power to consistently create and sustain laws, regulations, policies, and social norms, reverse racism does not and will not exist.
What does exist is the individual's ability to see a bigger system beyond their individual experiences.