Advocacy and confusion.

Hi Verons. This wasn't planned and Professor Rose and Warerston don't know about this post (I apologize if I'm stepping out of bounds with this) but something just happened in my class that couldn't wait and I'd really want to hear from you guys (hence the reason why I didn't write this in my journal instead. 

I was in my class today and there's one student in front of me who has vocalized more than once that he hates black people. He's said this time and time again and my heart boiled each time but considering the fact that we were in class, I didn't want to be "disruptive" nor did I know where to start. We broke up into group work today and he is in a group next to me. We are constructing a play and he proceeds to say that he'd want the black girl to be raped in his play because he "hates black people" (the class is rape in a global perspective so rape and/or violence had to be incorporated). This classmate is black himself, and IDENTIFIES as black so part of me may have felt like he was either kidding and/or felt bad for him for feeling this way about his own race.... But this was my last straw. 

I left my group and turned directly to him and said "I just have to know. Do you hate me because I'm black?" I started our conversation off this way and he said "I don't even know you, so no." I said right. "So what is with this false generalization of an entire race.. That includes you?". He proceeds to say that he doesn't agree with the culture of violence, the "stupid things they do", blah blah. An Asian guy in his group comes in and says "I don't think it's the race he hates, but the culture".. The black guy comes back in the conversation and says "it's not like I will act upon my hate and kill black people or anything. It's like me not beleiving in God and not bashing an entire religion because of it" SO much was wrong with this conversation but for the sake of time. I'll just give you an example of how I tried to handle this.  

I decided to dissect each aspect of what he said was validating his hate. For instance: he said that black people do stupid things and are "always up to trouble". I tell him that this mentality is the reason why stop and frisk is such an issue. Unnecessary police brutality and excessive force. You believing that this is true is a continued part of the problem. It matters. You are an asset to the system. And if I sit here and listen to you say this.. So am I. 

I have two questions. Does it still matter that someone is a racist even if they don't act upon their hate? Is this an example of self hate because he hates his own race? Help me Verons help me.