“blacks can be racist too"

She was being completely reasonable. I'm understating that, I'm trying to keep my response tame because I don't even resent or look down on them for it but the truth is that 'liberal/SJW' reasoning is just so unimaginably backwards and irrational. I'm not saying that to insult them, it's true. They behave as though they can't understand the most basic concepts. People are individuals, not just generic members of a group or class. Discrimination on the basis of race is racism and black people are literally capable of discriminating against non-black people. We are literally capable of considering ourselves to be superior. The fact that no predominately black society has ever enacted *systematic* racism against non-black people (assuming this is true) or that some Western countries have a history of systematically oppressing African slaves and other non-white groups doesn't negate that.

These people are intelligent enough to understand why the concept of black people being capable of racism and white people not being *systematically* privileged is perfectly sound. They just don't care to even try to examine the issue objectively. As petty as it might sound, and it's not an ad hominem I want to base my argument on but they come off as though they're just caught up with the idea of being revolutionaries fighting against an unjust and tyrannical system so they can play that role and not just because they really want to help people.

"racism is prejudice + power"

It's insane to deny that virtually all black people have at least some power. I have the power to discriminate against women. I have the power to discriminate against people for reasons that don't tie them to a visible social group. But the exact same things that I can do to a woman that I do to a white person, because they are white, don't qualify me as racist even though they would qualify me as sexist or even just a bully or someone who has wronged someone else? This is tantamount to literally claiming that black people don't have the physical power to wrong or mistreat people. There are no racist laws against black people in the Western world, we have all of the legal rights that white people are supposed to. What racism against us that exists is carried out by select individuals, most of whom don't have any unusual institutional authority, and when it involves a clear violation of legal rights that we share with white people the perpetrators are punished. At the worst, you can say that minority groups are more vulnerable to racism because they are outnumbered but it's not systematic and there's no fundamental moral difference between 'personal' racism and institutional racism. Or, for that matter, between racism and mistreating someone for any non-race related reason.