No one except Empirica is a racist here. We all understand the implications of Black only colleges and Brown pride t-shirts and all that. Yes, on the surface, it's not a good thing to divide people along racial lines, and one could see how something like a Black caucus could be construed as such. But the underling issue is the long history of black and brown people being treated like second-class citizens-- in fact, they were legally second -class citizens in many ways. The black power movements and other racial movements weren't totally out of hatred for white people (yes, it was there and still is); it was done as opposition to a society that said "You are not as good as white people". Well, they heard that and said, "No, I am not!" Black pride came out of a situation in which society at large said black was less than. Racial movements from that situation we're meant as proof that we are humans, we are just as good as you. As this idea progressed, many black people living in similar situations said, "We're not being represented, or we will not be represented, by a government that sees one race as lower than the other". So they formed their own political parties, caucuses, organization, college funds and so on.