“Racism is a system of power, disadvantage and dehumanisation—we share the same race, it’s not racism, it’s ethnic conflict.” – Howard Dean Johnson

Challenged on whether Black communities “do racism” to themselves, Johnson draws a sharp line between race-based oppression and ethnic or personal disputes. He argues that mis-naming the problem blinds us to its true source—and teaches children the wrong lesson about what race is and who the real oppressor is.

✅ Racism requires a race hierarchy, and has to be based on race; same-race quarrels fail that test
✅ What looks like “Black-on-Black racism” is ethnic conflict, jealousy, or internalised oppression
✅ Centuries of inequality redirect frustration inward, making neighbours targets instead of the system
✅ “Black” is racialised term. Black ethnicities are not races—diversity mistaken for racial division
✅ Cure starts with language: stop calling, ethnic conflict and prejudice “racism,” confront the actual power structure base on race as a project of colonial domination

🗣️ Name the myth, end the blame—clarity is the first step to collective power.

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