White People Are the Most Racist, And Are No More Racist Than Other Races

Both statements are true. Here’s why.

Glenn Rocess
5 min readSep 28, 2024
White supremacist group marching in Boston in 2022. (Newsweek)

Schrodinger’s Race Relations

Is it racist to say that white people are more racist than anyone else? The answer depends upon who’s reading this article, doesn’t it? I mean, if one says whites are more racist than any other race, isn’t such a statement itself the very definition of racism? Yes, that statement is quite racist and must rightly be rejected by anyone who accepts that all races are equal, that no race is superior or inferior to any other race.

However, considering white America’s history of slavery of Black people, genocide and ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, Jim Crow, lynchings, segregation, race massacres, white supremacy, white privilege, police brutality, and the rest of the damning and near-endless list of tragic injustices, how can one possibly deny that whites are more racist than any other race? For America, the claim is a documented fact and is beyond reasonable dispute.

So how can “whites are more racist than any other race” be both true and false? Have race relations gone the route of Schrödinger’s cat? Well, as with Schrodinger’s famous thought experiment, both statements are true until direct examination; in this case, it depends upon…

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Glenn Rocess

Retired Navy. Inveterate contrarian. If I haven’t done it, I’ve usually done something close.