Our people (Israelites) can be prejudiced. Our people can be angry. Our people (Israelites) can speak wrongly, judge wrongly, and mistreat others.
But racism, in the historical colonial sense, is not merely personal dislike. It is not simply noticing difference. It is not merely saying something harsh about another group. Racism is racial power organized into law, violence, theology, and social order.
Many Americans will take issue with that definition, because they do not see the magnitude of differentiations.
America wants racism to mean “any racial insult” because that childish definition protects their system from judgment or any reasonable scrutiny. If racism only means “somebody said something mean about another race,” then the oppressed and the oppressor can be placed on the same moral scale. A Black person telling the truth about whiteness becomes “racist,” while the system that enslaved, raped, trafficked, and murdered Black people (Israelites) becomes merely “complicated” or “that happened so long ago, bro.”
That argument is dishonest and disingenuous.
God called their reasoning a false balance.
And Proverbs 11:1 says, “A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.”1
Again, Black people (Israelites) can be prejudiced. Black people (Israelites) can be biased. Black people (Israelites) can sin. But Black people (Israelites) did not create a system of racism as a colonial dictatorship. Black people (Israelites) did not build the racial order. Black people (Israelites) did not use ships, courts, and churches to make themselves the standard of humanity while reducing Europeans to chattel property.
That system came from somewhere else. It did not come from Black people (Israelites).
Racism Was Built, Not Merely Felt
Racism was not born because one person disliked another person. Racism was built. It was constructed through conquest, slavery, and colonial classification. It became a way to decide who was human, who could own, and who could be owned.2
That is why racism cannot be reduced to attitude. Hatred in the heart is sin, but racism is more than hatred in the heart. Racism is hatred with ships. Hatred with legislation. Hatred with resources.
It is even hatred with theology.
European colonial powers did not merely dislike Black people (Israelites). They created systems that turned Hebrew bodies into labor, profit, and inheritable property. They created racial categories to explain why one people could dominate another people and still call themselves civilized. They created a moral lie and then built a world around it.
That is why the word “racism” must not be flattened. If racism is only an insult, then America never has to confess its sins. If racism is only connected to someone’s attitude, then the victim can be blamed for reacting to centuries of systemic abuse. But if racism is racial domination organized into law, labor, and theology, then America has to answer for its past crimes; one way or another.
That is the real reason people fight over the definition.
They are not defending truth.
They are defending escape.
Race Was Not a Biblical Category
The Bible does not begin with modern colloquial terms like “white people” and “Black people.” It begins with creation. It begins with man, Adam (dark-skinned ruddy), being formed by God. It proceeds with nations, families, tongues, and lands. Race, as America has come to understand it, is not even a biblical category given to us by God. It is a later invention by “European-passing nations” and weaponized through colonial powers and their bankers.
Europe did not merely conquer Hebrew bodies. Europe reclassified humanity across all spectrums.
That reclassification was not innocent, but intentional. It decided who could be enslaved, who could be sold, and who could be violated without the same moral outrage in the future. It allowed European nations, “white-passing” people, or “European Jews” (Europeans who identify with Judaism) to treat Black people (Israelites) as labor units while still preaching sermons about God’s love and righteous living.
That is not biblical order.
That is colonial disorder.
Scripture never authorizes Gentile nations to create a racial hierarchy and then place themselves at the top. Scripture never authorizes kidnapping, manstealing, or flesh trafficking of human beings. Scripture never authorizes theft and then blesses the thief because he quotes the Bible from his pulpit.
Exodus 21:16 says, “And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him… he shall surely be put to death.” The Bible was not silent about manstealing. It is not silent about stealing of any kind. Non-Israelite nations engaged in stealing, so God told the Israelites this would not be so among them.3
And this is pretty clear across Israelite history. So, the problem is not that Scripture failed to speak on these matters. The problem is that European Christianity has never sought to obey God in the first place.
They did not misunderstand because the text was unclear.
They misunderstood because obedience would have condemned their ambition to supplant the ethnic children of Israel.
The Colonial Machine
Racism did not merely insult Black people (Israelites). It reorganized society around our suffering. It stole our labor, broke our families, and protected the people who profited from both of those systems.
That is the colonial machine.
It took our men from their homes and turned them into property. It took mothers from their children and turned their wombs into economic instruments. It took our children from our parents and turned our family separation into standard business practices.
That is not prejudice.
That is racial dictatorship.
And the system did not stop at labor. No, because their greed has no end. It attacked the image of Black manhood and womanhood. It weakened our households. It violated our natural God-ordained roles. It made Black men vulnerable to public terrorism, and it made Black women vulnerable to sexual violence codified by imaginary laws.
This is why this conversation must be dealt with honestly. Racism was not merely “bad feelings.” Racism was and is a system where Europeans could rape our mothers, sell our children, and murder our men while still claiming imaginary moral superiority.
That is why “Black people can be racist too” is such an unserious phrase when the historical definition is on the table of consideration.
Where is the Black colonial machine that did this to Europeans?
Where are the Black slave ships that trafficked many millions of Europeans across the ocean?
Where are the Black courts that made European bodies inheritable property?
Where are the Black administrations, government or otherwise, that destroyed European towns and displaced millions?
There is no such thing as a reverse version of that history in America.
There is no such thing as reverse colonialism.
There is no such thing as reverse European racial chattel slavery.
There is no such thing as reverse Jim Crow.
There is only a dishonest attempt to make our reactions look equivalent to white hatred.
Christianity’s Crime Scene
European Christianity must be placed at the scene of the crime.
That does not mean every individual person who identifies as “Christian” committed the same acts. It means the religious system, that derived its doctrines from the Bible, that we call “Eurocentric Christianity” gave spiritual cover to this powerful system of hatred. It took a non-European text, centered itself inside that text, and then used that stolen authority to justify violence against our people.
That is one of the greatest acts of cultural appropriation in all of human history.
Europeans read a book written by non-Europeans, about non-Europeans, centered on a Hebrew Messiah (Negro), and somehow made themselves the divine standard. They painted Christ as European. They painted the prophets as European. They painted biblical righteousness in European flesh.
Then they turned around and called Black people cursed.
That is not biblical literacy.
That is colonial delusion.
The Bible they claimed to follow even condemned their own behavior. Isaiah 10:1-2 condemns those who decree unrighteous decrees and rob the poor of judgment. Jeremiah 22:3 commands rulers to execute judgment and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor. James 2:9 says that if you have respect to persons, “ye commit sin.”4
The text was not on their side.
They forced it to speak their language.
That is what colonial religion does. It steals the holy, distorts the holy, and then uses the holy to protect unholy power.
Why Black Anger Is Not Racism
Black anger is not automatically righteous, but it is better collectively than European anger has been historically. Anger can become sinful. Hatred can corrupt judgment. Bitterness can make a person speak foolishly.
But Black (Hebrew) anger against racism is not the same thing as European racism.
That distinction matters.
A Black person responding to centuries of theft, rape, and terror is not the mirror image of the system that created those conditions. A Black person saying something harsh about white people is not the same as a state-backed racial order. It may be wrong. It may be unwise. It may be prejudiced.
But it is not colonial racism.
America wants us to believe that our reaction and domination are equal. That is the trick. If the oppressor can make the victim’s response look equal to the original crime, then the oppressor never has to confess the crime in public discourse.
That is why the phrase “reverse racism” is fraudulent.
It is used to silence our people who name their system. It is used to protect whiteness from accountability. It is used to make historical truth sound like hatred.
But telling the truth about racial power is not racism.
It is divine judgment.
The Things History Books Omit
American history books often soften slavery. And that softening was intentional through intermediary nonprofits like the Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans, who developed a particular interpretation of the Confederacy known as the “Lost Cause” narrative. They sanitize lynching. They turn racial terror into “racial tension.” They paint the Confederacy as honorable patriots. They argue the Confederate cause was “that was all they knew,” so we cannot blame them for what they believed. They taught state-backed theft was a matter of God-ordained “segregation” with so-called Blacks as subordinate chattel and them as rightful rulers.5
That language is cowardly.
The record is uglier than the classroom admits.
Our people were not merely overworked. Our ancestors were violated. They were not merely punished. They were tortured. They were not merely killed. They were often publicly mutilated or castrated so that entire communities would receive the message loud and clear.
Lynching was not only mob murder. It was public theater. It was public warning. It was a humiliation ritual.6
White “woke mobs” did not always hide their violence. They assembled to behold the spectacle carefully. They brought their children to the theater. They posed for photographs with our bodies as if our murders were a community festival. That is the America many history books refuse to describe with intellectual honesty.
And even that is not the bottom of the record.
There are testimonies, studies, and literary-historical records that discuss the consumption of our bodies in American slave culture. Some of that language is symbolic. Some of it is sexual. Some of it concerns literal acts and documented histories. The point is not to exaggerate or hyperbolize every case into cannibalism. The point is to admit that there was terrorism against our ancestors’ bodies and that domestic terrorism went far beyond what America wants remembered.7
This is why their sanitized version of history is extremely dangerous.
It makes the oppressed look dramatic, or paints the oppressed as victims of our own cessation.
It makes the oppressor look misunderstood, or paints the oppressor as not culpable to the sins of the past.
But our people did not imagine this horror. Our people survived it, recorded it, and passed down the collective memory of this hatred because America kept trying to bury the evidence of our skeletons under concrete buildings and busy city streets.
Racism Reclassified Black Humanity
Racism did not simply hate our people. It renamed our people. It changed the legal and social meaning of our existence. It made our complexion a mark of labor, suspicion, and disposability.
That is why racism is not merely emotional. It is classificatory. It tells the world who you are before you speak. It assigns guilt before evidence. It assigns imaginary “inferiority” before cross-examination.
This is why the term “Negro,” the term “Black,” and the term “African” were all handled through the machinery of colonial powers. These labels were not always neutral descriptions. They were often placed inside legal, economic, and social systems designed to keep our people beneath their newfound ethnogenesis called “whiteness.”
That is true racism.
Not a Black person refusing to bow to whiteness.
Not a Black person calling out European violence.
Not a Black person saying, “Your system is wicked.”
Racism is the power to define another people into subjection and then punish them for resisting the definition.
Our people have not possessed that power in America.
Black people were subjected to it.
The False Balance
A false balance is when unequal things are weighed as if they are equal. America does this constantly with race.
It compares our frustration to white supremacy.
It compares our speech to white violence.
It compares our memory to white fragility.
That is a false balance.
If a Black person says, “White supremacy is wicked,” America says, “That sounds racist.” But when white supremacy built laws, banks, schools, and prisons around our disadvantage, America called that “American history.” Happy 250th Anniversary.
And that is not history in the neutral sense.
That is sin with a timeline.
This is why Scripture matters. The Bible does not allow oppressors to control the definition of justice. They do not control the narrative. Isaiah (Yeshayahu) did not ask the oppressor how oppression should be described. Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu) did not ask corrupt rulers whether the victims were being too emotional. Christ did not ask hypocrite Israelites for permission before exposing them.
Truth should not need approval from the people it judges.
Black People Can Sin, But That Is Not the Point
This article is not arguing that our people are morally perfect. That would be foolish. Our people can lie. Our people can hate. Our people can show partiality.
The Bible condemns sin wherever it appears, even among the children of Israel.
But the question is not whether our people can sin. The question is whether our people created and maintained racism as a colonial order in America. The answer is clearly no.
Our people did not create blackness or whiteness.
Our people did not invent racial slavery or racial chattel systems.
Our people did not build Jim Crow, redlining, or wage disparity.
And that is why these distinctions matter. If a Black person hates someone because they are white, that can be sin. It can be prejudice. It can be partiality too. But it is not the same thing as the system that made our people property, broke our families, and protected white terrorism through law for centuries.
Calling both things “racism” may sound fair to shallow minds.
But it is wicked reasoning to the just.
Why? Because it is a false balance.
Why America Needs the Childish Definition
Now, America needs racism to mean “racial meanness” because that definition lowers the cost of their public confession. If racism is only meanness, then America can accuse everybody of racism and repent of nothing historically. And it can even indoctrinate its children with ineptitude and lack of empathy.
If racism is colonial power, America has to confess. And confess, they will.
If racism is only insult, America can pretend our righteous indignation and white supremacy are categorically equal. But if racism is economic domination built into law, labor, and theology, then America has to stand in the courtroom of historical analysis and answer for the lies their forefathers passed down to them, Jer 16:19.8
So, definitions matter.
A childish definition protects their guilty. A historical definition exposes the guilty. And most importantly, biblical definitions judge that they are guilty.
However, America does not want to be judged yet.
So it tells our people, “You can be racist too,” hoping we will forget what racism actually was and is today. It wants us to accept a definition that removes the ships, removes the laws, and removes the blood spilled unable to be brought up again.
But, America, we will not forget.
We will remember your ships.
We will remember your auction blocks.
We will remember your trees.
We will remember your churches that blessed your system and then called your system holy.
Conclusion
So, yes, our people can be prejudiced. Our people can be wrong. Our people can commit sin, and are deserving of punishment by the Most High God, Heb 12:6.9
But our people did not create racism.
Our people survived racism, and are still surviving today.
Racism, in the colonial sense, was not created by our people. It was built by European nations, protected by European law, and sanctified by Eurocentric Christianity. It reclassified our humanity, stole our identity, and terrorized our families.
That is why “Black people can be racist too” is not a serious historical argument. It is a bumper sticker slogan used to flatten the crime scene. It is their attempt at making the oppressed answer for a system they did not create.
The truth is simple: racism was never just a feeling. It was a system. It had ships, laws, and churches. It had guns, banks, and courts. It had whips, mobs, and textbooks.
And our people were not its racial architects.
We were its sweat banks.
So when our people speak against racism, we are not being racist.
We are testifying of divine judgment.
And testimony makes oppressors uncomfortable because testimony refuses to let the guilty write the final definition.