Poison-the-Monkey
I agree there, though I don't really have a problem with "black power" because blacks are so oppressed, but you're right: the focus should be equality, not power just for that race. But I think equality is what most "black power" advocates are pushing for, save for a few who really think blacks are superior and should be in charge, which makes them no different from racist whites.
I don't really think black power is racist, though, at least not the people advocating it. I think we are in a time where we can drop ideas like "feminism" and "black power" and "white power". We claim that we want to move forward and drop racism and sexism, but we can never seem to stop pointing out differences between races and genders and things that happened in the past. It just seems backwards to ask for equality and then flaunt how women get good test scores or how white people hurt black people.
Or to be for Hillary primarily because she is a woman. That doesn't matter to me, it just sounds stupid to use "She'd be the first woman!" as a valid point in the presidential debate. It's like saying "How quaint! The first jew/amputee/midget/latino president!", it's picking someone based on vanity rather than her positions, which is sexism and foolishness.
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