The answer depends on how the word “racist” is being used.

If racism simply means that one person can dislike, distrust, or mistreat another person because of race, then anyone can carry prejudice. Black people are human beings, and human beings can carry anger, bias, pain, and resentment.

But if racism is understood as a system of power — a structure that controls housing, courts, policing, education, employment, media, wealth, land, and political authority — then Black people in North America are not in the position to be racist in the same way that racism has historically operated against them.

A Black person disliking a white person is usually not rooted in a belief that Black people are naturally superior and white people are naturally inferior. More often, it is a response to history, treatment, trauma, exclusion, and the lived reality of being judged, restricted, or harmed by systems built before that Black person was even born.

That does not mean hatred is healthy. It does not mean bitterness should become identity. It does not mean every white person is personally guilty for everything that happened in history.

But it does mean we must be honest about the difference between a personal reaction and a system of domination.

Racism was not simply someone having a bad attitude. Racism was law. Racism was land theft. Racism was slavery. Racism was segregation. Racism was redlining. Racism was unequal schooling. Racism was police violence. Racism was exclusion from wealth-building. Racism was the power to define Black people, control Black people, and punish Black people for resisting that control.

Black frustration is not the same thing as white supremacy.

Black distrust is not the same thing as institutional racism.

Black anger is not the same thing as centuries of organized power.

The real question is not whether Black people can feel anger toward white people. Of course they can. The real question is whether Black people created and control the system that made race a weapon in the first place.

The answer is no.

The Allegiance teaches that our responsibility is not to live in hatred, but to live in clarity. We do not organize around bitterness. We organize around truth, discipline, brotherhood, and self-governance.

We are not here to hate anyone.

We are here to understand what happened, govern ourselves, protect our people, and build what comes next.