To George Jefferson or Not to George Jefferson, That is....

Black racism, does it exist? One side of the argument asserts that groups such as African-Americans who've consistently been the objects of prejudice and discrimination de facto cannot be racist. The other side asserts that basically anybody can be a bigot and that prior career contingencies are quite immaterial........................................................................................What's my assessment on it? I would probably have to lean more toward the latter opinion if pressed. I mean, yeah, I could see how certain African-Americans of a specific age (the Jeremiah Wrights of the world) and/or socioeconomic status (inner-city kids with limited options) might have some justifiable hostility toward white people. But when you have a guy like Roland Martin (a man who's frequently accused other people of bigotry) making anti-gay comments and African-Americans, en masse (57-70%), voting for Proposition 8 in California, it's majorly difficult to explain away THAT. It's like, really, what in the hell did gay people ever do to Roland Martin to make him be so insensitive to THEM.....................................................................................Yeah, folks, I'm afraid to say that bigotry doesn't have any hard and fast boundaries.