Smeagol
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So here's the poll.
You have Person A and Person B.
They both hate the other one, because the other person is a different race.
Are they racist?
Poll options are.. in the poll.
I would say both are racist.
However, in the interest of bringing about greater understating, some would say neither. In their minds the emotion of animosity toward people of a different race doesn't become racism until it is acted upon. This is why many blacks for example do not call what some would call "hate" toward whites (but they would call "resentment" toward whites) racism. On the other hand, they do call almost the same thing racism if its white toward blacks. Why? Because its acted upon to suppress job promotions, compensation and hiring; which businesses are patronized by all races and which are not; unequal sentencing in the criminal justice system; efforts to reduce black voter participation in elections while no efforts are made to reduce white voter participation and even disdain toward cultural observations like Martin Luther King Day compared to celebrations of European heritage like Thanksgiving Day and St. Patrick's Day where all races including blacks happily obverse along with their white friends.