😅 Is this a serious question?! China? Saudia Arabia? Morocco? Ghana? India? Japan? Zimbabwe? Nigeria? Did you forget that America is not the entire world? That non-white majority countries exist?

There are plenty of people of colour in positions of power in America too, by the way. But white people are around 70% of the American population. So yes, it's not a shock to see more white people in positions of power.

But a white person in power isn't necessarily "white people" in power. Just as a black person in power isn't "black people" in power. When Obama was president, black people weren't in power in America. The country wasn't run according to a black agenda. It didn't set out to punish and/or penalise white people. This "looking at skin colour tells us everything we need to know about how they think or act or who they support" mindset is the very definition of racism.

So yes racism exists. And I see it clearly. I've seen it in my own life, I see it in the many well-documented disparities in treatment black people face in the legal system and education and employment, I see it in this widespread urge to collectivise people based on their melanin levels, and I see it, in its most unchecked form, in modern-day "antiracism."

Because far too many people have convinced themselves that their version of racism is the good kind.