Well, find me an intelligent European who isn’t self hating, but isn’t a little racist. We are all a little racist. Even if one’s definition of racism requires some real world advantage, African Americans who love ourselves and our people are racist. We manage to beat the institutions until they kill us outright, because of our natural advantages.

It’s just one of those things about human nature, that each of us sees the miracle of our people, and is rightfully suspicious of foreign influence. People should be more suspicious. Some things are mind viruses that out of their original context, have a similar effect to disease or pollution. Cultural exchange is good when it’s organic. Some things are very negative interference, like Christianity and Islam in Africa. The home grown Sufists and Ethiopian Tewahedo church are night and day from outsider-driven missionary efforts.

So really, nobody should just accept someone’s judgement of a situation blindly in the first place. One should be doubly critical when the speaker is from a very different origin. However, with that in mind, one can take the good from what they’re saying, and leave the bits that are subjective to their people’s common insecurities.