Posts Tagged ‘ racism ’
Black Panthers, Chicago, 1969 Hiroji Kubota/Magnum Photos
“White privilege” is a protean concept that has found its way into conversations about political power, material prosperity, social status, and even cognition.
Source: The Wages of Whiteness | by Hari Kunzru | The New York Review of Books
hat tip to Sarah
The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
Michelle Obama says she “can’t make people not afraid of black people,” but can “pick away at the scabs of discrimination” through her life’s work.
Source: Michelle Obama: ‘I can’t make people not afraid of black people’ | TheHill
While progressive in many ways by the standards of the day, the U.S. was founded on two brutal racist principles: the most hideous system of slavery in human history, the source of much of its wealth (and England’s too), and the need to rid the national territory of Native Americans, whom the Declaration of Independence explicitly describes as “the merciless Indian savages,” and whom the framers saw as barring the expansion of the “superior” race.
Immigrants … were supposed to be white immigrants — in fact, basically “Anglo-Saxon,” in accord with weird racist myths of the founding fathers that persisted through the 19th century.
Source: Noam Chomsky: To Make the US a Democracy, the Constitution Itself Must Change