That only works if you redefine your terms. You can call that racism if you want to and that’s the way our language is starting to shift, but the original meaning of the term, and the one I find most honest is belief based. We have other ways of conveying what you just said in English, you don’t need to redefine racism as a requiring a component of power.
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Ive finally gotten to my computer to respond. Sorry about the delay. Anyway, what seperates racism from prejudice is power. Racism is acting on prejudices. My definition of racism and that all whites are racist is complicated. I believe that everyone has prejudices. It is simply a matter of life. Blacks stereotype whites, whites stereotype blacks, it happens. I know I roll my eyes when I see gothic kids on the streets. It is simply a fact of life. Not something I endorse, but something that happens. Anyway, these are simply prejudices. What makes it racism is when the prejudice have a causal relationship and one side benefits at the degredation of the other. Now, institutional "racism" systematical discriminates against blacks and provides whites with "white privelege." Anyway, this means that although everyone is has prejudice beliefs, the whites are benefiting from this discrimination. Therefore, whites are racist. You may not notice the discrimination, but even among blue collar and working poor jobs, whites are given presidence over blacks. Anyway, this is my definition. We all have our prejudices, but whites recieve the advantages in the system of oppression. Does this justify AA? Im not entirely sure that it does as I dont see a reason at the graduate level that a minority would not have recieved an adequate enough education that if fully taken advantage of could place them on an even playing field. Anyway, my point was simply that if the brains of the URMs quoted by red prevented them from achieving equal levels of success on standardized test because of a self profilling prophecy, then they may not be prepared for law school. Confidence plays a big role in success.
Anyway, I was a math major so ignore the poor usage of grammar and the frequent misspellings and judge my opinions soley on content. Spell check will catch this on my law school papers as it has in the past.