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You are misinformed my friend. Racism is not nor has it ever been defined as white against black. It is defined as discrimination against another race.

Those firemen put on the applications that they were black and were hired when they had been turned down before, that is racist not reverse racism. The black race nor another race does not "own" the term racism.

rac·ism/ˈrāˌsizəm/

Noun:

The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as...

Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.