Please tell me you don't think black people can be racist....
Okay . . . I will respond to you with this:
Several years ago, one of these trashy reality shows on TV had an interesting episode. I think it was WIFE SWAP, or something like that. Anyway, the wife in question on this particular episode was the infamous "God-Warrior," that loud white lady who made your typical Bible Thumpers look like little church mice. She was swapped with a small black family in the deep south, where the entire time, the husband made her feel like absolute crap for being white, as he continuously ranted about, "white people this," and "white people that." She even asked him at one point if he's prejudice against white people, but his response was, "I'm prejudice
for black people."
At one point in the episode, they had a family cook-out with relatives who came to visit, and they were appauled by his behavior, even to the point that he drove her to tears, and out of the house, while he mocked and humiliated her the entire time. The guy usually went by an African name (I remember it being "Abassi," because I thought it seemed fitting since he seemed so bossy), but one of the relatives called him out by a more American-sounding name ("Conrad"), taking him out into the yard, and giving him a dressing down. I honestly couldn't understand what they were saying to each other, because it was mostly said in "ebonics," but one thing I did discern from their conversation was the relative telling point-blank: "you bein' black for the wrong reasons!"
So, yes, black people can be racist against white people, but Abassi/Conrad had an interesting point with his justification in being prejudice
for black people, which was essentially kind of like a BLM attitude before BLM was even a thing . . . no, it didn't excuse his behavior, nor did it give him a freepass for treating "God-Warrior" like absolute crap because she was white - again,
his own relatives called him out on this.
That being said, you both are right. You are right in that black people can be racist against white people, but Tai is also right in that there is no such thing as "reverse racism," because, as you say, racism is racism, regardless of which race it's against, period. However, you can't take one example of one specific display of racism, and claim, "this is what
true/real racism in America looks like," as Fox News has done in the past. Case in point: the time a young bi-racial boy was lured to a party by three white teens, who attempted to lynch him from a tree - that was all over the news, but at the same time, Fox News chose to focus on a black rapper who made a music video depicting the lynching of white boys from a tree, and tell its viewers, "See? This is what
real racism in America looks like!"