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Any treatment of "race" as if it were real is racism, so YES, anyone expressing pride in their "race" is most definitely participating in racism.
Identifying the PERSON (as opposed to the action) as being a racist is quite another matter. I unclog my toilet from time to time, but I'm never mistaken for a plumber. To me, for someone to BE a racist is distinct from participating in racism. The vast overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. participate in racism. Only a select few within that pool, however, can be said to BE racists -- meaning people who go out of their way to treat "race" as if it were real in their social or professional role (and typically call for doing something about it). A random adult in damn near any city likely participates in racism. You have to look fairly hard, however, to find someone who IS a racist (that's their identity).
For me, such rare examples would include:
- David Duke
- Charles Murray
- Louis Farrakhan
- Julius Malema
- Jared Taylor
etc.
Most participants in racism are complicit in -- rather than ideologically committed to -- racism. In other words, they go along with participating in racism because they have little to no means of easily accessing a nonracist alternative.
Moving on to the completely different issue of nationality, that requires a case-by-case analysis. Nationality is not the same thing as "race," nor even (as so frequently and falsely imagined) the same thing as one's country (which gets confusing, because there are some cases where it is officially treated as the same thing). Sometimes two or more of these coincide, sometimes they are different.
So is expression of "racial" pride automatically a racist sentiment/action? HELL yes. Is expression of nationalist pride automatically racist? No; we'd need more context.
If I am understanding you correctly, you are not differentiating between whites, blacks, or any other race, or american, indian, british or any other nationality. If you are considering anyone who has pride in their race a racist then I can respect that. My problem is really with people who act like black pride/brown pride ect are ok but white pride is wrong. Or people who fight and argue that people of other cultures have every right to display pride in their cultures and countries but the second an American displays it it is wrong. If the playing field is level then i have no problem. I am tired of seeing these dumb double standards.