Racism: the Dying Regime

[Rhuma7]

Originally Posted by Malice_Mizer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You're putting the cart way ahead of the horse, friend.

First of all, racism in America is the expression of a racial supremacist ideology through power and force. In this way, only white people (being the dominant group for multiple centuries) can actually be racist. You're claiming that everybody is prejudiced and holds unknown bias deep in their hearts. That's not racism. A "black person" being distrustful of white people because they've been marginalized their entire lives and their parents were victims of systematic and institutional racial violence by the police during the Civil Rights era is not "racism." It's just not. We're all participants and victims of a racist social order. Individuals are not "racist." We all contribute to it in our own ways.

That being said, the way a society progresses is not to jump from one generation of being attacked by the police for wanting the right to vote into the next where nobody recognizes or sees skin color. That's naive and deluding yourself if you actually believe anybody can actively not see skin color. It is intimately tied into our socialization and how we categorize our world and understanding of it, especially as Americans. Our entire national history is a story of race and struggle, almost entirely.

We can't simply go from centuries of enforced white supremacy to saying, "Oh, well shit, sorry about that guys! Let's just not see race anymore because that's easier for us to repent for the past and not own up to the horrors this country was built upon."

To pretend skin color doesn't exist is an egregious crime because it denies people the ability to reconcile the past, come to terms with our collective history, and move onward from it. We're not there yet, and to jump into color-blindness would do everyone, especially the victims of racial injustice, a grave disservice.

Racism will never be obsolete. The words white/black/african-america/hispanic in itself is racism.

Did you even read the post or just make wild assumptions? My post wasn't a "if we do this and that there wont be any racism" I'm telling you that the way we have learned to "categorize" skin color is inherently racist and saying only negative racism is racism is silly.

Whats the difference between saying "That ****** is smart!" and "That african american is smart!" Their both a name for a race, which is redundant, when the same can be said as "That guy/woman is smart!" with the exception one is clearly "racist" as you would put but as a whole, their racist on the fact that the color of his skin was brought to a point and somehow had any relation to the compliment.