Someone will first need to define "power". Are we strictly referring to governmental power whether it be federal, state, or local ? Would Black Lives Matter not have influential power, more so than say the Proud Boys. There are 14 members on the Board of Directors of the Southern Poverty Law Center, seven are black, six are white, and one is Hispanic. Does this organization then not have a black majority, and do they not exert a certain power over deciding who qualifies as a hate group ?

The simple response to this question. Look at two children in a park playing, one black one white. They don't care what colour you are there just playing together in the park!

Coming from a South Asian & completely non-white background there is one thing I'd like to address and that is the title 'Can only white people be racist'?
My reply to this is a massive NO, and I have come across plenty of non-white people who are racist-towards another group, be it white, or non-white.
Nobody can ever convince me that only white people are racist, and I have never believed such nonsense in my entire life.
If we're going to talk about 'whites must be racist' due to the power they hold, due to their positions within society, due to all the priveledges they've been given, then we might as well nit-pick and spend our entire lives seeing every-damn-thing as racist.
Asian people live in western countries and many of them are in high paying jobs, it's the norm for Asian parents to want their children to go to University and obtain degrees and obtain higher paying jobs.
Power struggles are going to be there, if you allow them to enter your life.
Some people like to complain about USA being racist and people of colour struggling, well makes me wonder...
If America is (or was) as racist as people claim it is/was then answer me this:
Why then was Madam C. J Walker (a black lady) the first female millionaire in the USA, despite being made an orphan and with very limited choices in life?
She worked her way up-which shows determination, perseverance, discipline and a willingness to succeed.
If she'd held limiting beliefs, such as those supported by BLM, she probably wouldn't have gotten to where she got to!

I believe that all races can be racist. One current example is Joe Biden's choice for the DOJ Civil Rights Division leader: Kristen Clarke. Kristen Clarke is a black woman who was president of the Black Students Association at Harvard. In 1979, she co-authored a letter to the Harvard Crimson saying that blacks are superior in both physical and mental abilities, because of the melanin in their skin. This debunked theory (which still has followers to this day) is called the Melanin Theory. Joe Biden is a white man who has supported policies that have harmed black people, such as the Biden-Roth which he co-sponsored in 1977. Joe Biden did not want black students to attend white schools; so he said he was against buses being directed to transport black students to better schools in predominately white neighborhoods. I am thinking that Joe Biden is attempting some sort of "reparations" appointing a black racist as the Department of Justice's head of the Civil Rights Division.

Any person who has had experiences with people of other races is going to have opinions about people of those races. We build associations based upon our experiences and observations of people of different races. Those experiences and observations cause a certain amount off pre-judgment when we meet or see someone of that race. Thus we all are ""racist" to a degree.
Any who deny they are at least somewhat racist are not aware of their own biases.

As we have seen historically some of the most impoverished southern states are or were very racist - poverty breeds hate and hate always needs a target, and hating up the ladder is a lot harder than looking down on someone.

BLM calls for the death of white people because they are white, is this not racist? and if it is then the question has been truly answered has it not?

I will go off of my experience in Romania when I made friends with people from different parts of Africa. I learned real quick that they did not see me as a problem. I saw them as just another person to interact with. I am getting tired of hearing the same stupid trope that was preached by the KKK. The only difference is the color of the skin and the outfits they wear.

I’m reality, biases are characteristic of all humans. In the fantasy world of woke-progressive thinking, however, whites, especially American whites, are the only group deserving of condemnation.

Robin DiAngelo is getting rich saying all whites are racists, even if most of them lack the self-awareness to realize it. DiAngelo and other woke-progressives, hard-pressed to find instances of real racism, have instead “invented” completely new forms of the scourge, like unconscious bias, and structural or institutional racism. Conveniently, all of these are invisible and impossible to disprove. We just have to take their word for it.

The sad truth is that the black community has always been mercilessly exploited, not by some secret army of southern supremacists, but by woke academics like DiAngelo, who traumatize young blacks by feeding them a steady, frightening and false message of helpless victimhood.

The real modern but covert definition of raycism, used the wokest SJWs, is 'prefering your own kind'. And as everyone in fact prefers their own type and birds of a feather flock together, so everyone is rayciss. Of course only the finger-pointing irrationality of the wokest virtue-signaller is used to accuse everyone not like them, who does not pretend to have 'best friend' of a different ethnicity - it is a bash everyone stick, it is an argument of infinite power, but only the mentally and morally weak need to use it to tyrannise the sensible and strong normal people.

This would lead me to ask; what about those "People of Color" who attain high institutional power? If they hold the same anti-racist position they held when they did not hold a position of power, does this now flip anti-racism into racism? Or is it that only Whites can be racist? If so, that would imply that racism is attributable to only one racial group, and isn't the attribution of prejudice against a specific race racism? While two things can be true at the same time, two things that are the antithesis of each other cannot be true without extreme contradiction causing chaos.

I am a former New Yorker living in the South I can tell you with real world experience ANY human can be a bigot or a racist POS. Bigotry and racism seems to be more prevalent in the local Black and Mexican communities. This is just my own experience.

Racism is one form of bullshit that is used to control. Find any group and you will find bias toward other groups. I will defend my family before I help others.
As for the rest some people are worth knowing and some not.

Merit is the way to go. A person's ability, their demeanor, their intelligence, their intent, the way they connect. Lets try an experiment. Hide a person's skin colour and interview them based on their ability to communicate effectively, their intelligence etc. Take skin colour out of the picture entirely. Then no argument can be made about racism.

A ridiculous supposition. I am white and have traveled extensively, and live in "multicultural" Australia. I have experienced racism towards myself from Asian, Arabic, Aboriginal and African-cultural groups in my own home country, in addition to experiencing racism towards myself and my partner while traveling in India.

That’s the wrong question can black people be racist?

I think my dog is racist.

He is an Australian Labradoodle. When I take him to the park, he invariably wags his tail whenever he sees a Labrador or a poodle of some description. If he sees a dog like him, his happiness is complete. He plays with them and he looks very happy.

He still plays with other dogs though. When he sees a German Shepherd, he tends to bark and avoid them. Sometimes he has played with a young German Shepherd, but that is the exception rather than the rule. He does not like Scottish Terriers either. It may be because they bark at him.

I think power plays a role. Part of the reason he does not like German Shepherds, is that one of them attacked another dog he was friends with, and his owner had to take him to the vet. With Scottish Terriers, they tend to be smaller than him, but they bark at him. It may be because they are scared, or just bad tempered.

I have just booked him for that course that Coca Cola does for employees.

Racism can only originate in the mind. What is racism? It's any individual acting on the premise of race alone, however that term is defined by that individual.

I don't think racism is only a trait of the people of European/Caucasian aspect. In fact, white people, to called them in that way, are quite neutral in that aspect now.

Let me give a couple of examples of flagrant racism in the black communities.

White and Asian men and women usually can date outside of their communities without much backslash from their communities. Conversely, it is globally accepted in the black communities that is natural to ostracize black men dating women of European or Asian ancestry. Usually black women cannot even do that without being expelled out of their families. This for me is not only an accepted form of racism, but promotion of racism as a cultural trait.

Another symptom of the same racism becomes manifest when one realize that, unlike at USA, people in UK speaks with the accent of their social economic group and not of their race, if that exist at all. The very idea that black communities have a parallel culture and language, independent of the rest of the USA, spells a form of racism disguised as self-isolation.

White have the institutional power
Black is the main power.
Two wrongs don't make a Right.

Race me. i'll win!

Only the gullible or simply uninformed will let racism be thought of in terms of "critical-race-theory." Such thinking is not critical because it does not examine itself; it's not theoretic because theory directly implies the need for proof and objective verification; it's not about race except as an object manipulated by "societal power." But this re-definition allows racist behavior to be acceptable, political enemies to be smeared, and low information voters to be swayed. It is a tool of propaganda and political control.
We should also note that the only power it does not object to is the power its proponents seek--a very convenient rhetorical property for totalitarians to own. To be explicit, racism is a set of behaviors not an intellectual construct. Critical Race Theory is based on a lie, and is unworkable and damaging.

The question itself "Can only white people be racist?" presumes there is such a thing as a "white person," which is a racist presumption.

I assert that you will identify a cultural type as "black" or "white," pretty much independently of their hue of skin tone. If true, it makes the question itself invalid.

the God that Created Life on universes seems to have used evolution to design species and races in its creation for the essential reason of maintaining difference for the best odds for the survival of life itself in catastrophe prone chaotic surface environments ... the methods the Creator used are becoming slightly comprehensible in scientific research, basic and primitive and only best guess opinion as it may be yet ... but we advance if we follow the levels of repetitive patterns and learn to avoid the limiting feedback control loops ... slowly some of us find the way to ascend ... Obey and follow the Creator's design ... keep all you own for only your own ... learn to be the best and fight or die to advance to the future

Just wanted to point out that globally speaking, whites are the minority. Since we live in a global society now, where are the groups fighting for the rights of whites?

I'll answer my own question: They are hiding, in fear of being exposed, cancelled, unemployed, targeted, boycotted, ostracized, even rendered homeless for having the gall to express their opinions.