A. Lapshin proposes to continue the discussion of the most acute global problem of our time – the explosion of nationalism on racial grounds, raised in the article of professor K. Gadzhiev («Power», No. 3, 2021). The author notes that the epistemological limitations of black ethnocentrism as an ideology and system of political orientations, as it was in the case of the class approach, distort the description of historical processes, but more importantly when using these attitudes in practical politics, the concept of black ethnocentrism leads to dramatic results.