So what? What matters is how credible any given article may be.

You wrote: <<And my main point was that if one believes that it was bad, then it is not racist to say it out loud.>>

Huh? Where did this straw man come from?

<<Those who believe as much but do not say it because they don't want to appear anti-Black are the true racists.>>

Uh, no. The true racists are people who think x-"race" or ethnicity is by heredity an inferior human and/or tolerates policies and conventions that reinforce racist ideology.

Of course there's no such thing as "race"; still racism is real.