Hi Embodied Dialogics, thanks for reading and for your reply. Yes, I do understand why people would say that, but if we think of "not-being-racist" is actually not challenging racism, then our only option is to assume black people are always anti-racist. I think it's ok to point out that black people can be racist without falling into what many white people might think is an excuse to deny racism altogether, but that would be thinking in an ends justifies the means way, rather than exploring what actually takes place. For example, it would be like if people said, "women can be sexist so that means violence against women isn't real." People might think that if we point out black people can be racist, those with little understanding will take it and run with it, which I have noticed in some comments to my article. To say that black people can be racist does not minimize the particular anti-black racism that operates all over the world. If we get too enmeshed in who and in how someone has power, which is important to do, we spend too much time trying to label a phenomenon. I think being anti-racist, or working towards ending racism is an action and a stance that you need to work on, but we all can slip out of it.