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ASSOCIATED PRESS: BLACK RACISM ON THE RISE? Joe Hicks was a black nationalist and proudly demoni?

By Glenn Reynolds

ASSOCIATED PRESS: BLACK RACISM ON THE RISE?

Joe Hicks was a black nationalist and proudly demonized whites back then. Now a conservative Republican and vice president of Community Advocates Inc. in Los Angeles, which works to improve race relations, Hicks says today that black racism is not widespread: “The average black person doesn’t dislike white people.”

But he does believe it has become more prevalent than white racism. “Bigotry among white Americans has been driven to the margins of society. White people fear being called a racist more than anything else. But as white people have slowly moved away from viewing themselves in a racialized way, black people have maintained their sense of racial consciousness,” which sometimes leads to bias, he said.

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