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The History of Racism Exposed!
“Abraham Lincoln had invited a group of free blacks to the White House in August 1862 and told them: “Your race suffers greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason why we should be separated.”
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Judging by this historical account, it is evident that equality was never considered the goal in this nation. The objective appears to be one of separation.
Abraham Lincoln is implying that white people were uncomfortable living around people whom they had enslaved and the racism that whites showed towards blacks was evidence of their need to be kept apart. Therefore, the highest office in this country had endorsed institutional racism and this blatant disrespect against people of color has its beginning when freedom was an option for Black people. This form of institutional racism kept blacks living in a state of fear, instability, and anger. There is rarely a moment of communication because talk has been ineffective when discussing equality between the races. Whites had control of the power through Black Codes that were similar to the Slave Codes before the Civil War and these codes are the foundation of the institutional racism that supports a widespread disrespect of Blacks today.
In the schools, many of the lessons being taught create stereotypes in the minds of Caucasians about the African Americans. They are labeled as lazy, primitive, and unclean. Some teachers mention major accomplishments in the world and these great strides in technology are attributed to whites. This is white supremacy being taught to students in an indirect manner and this signifies that people of other ethnic groups did not do anything that is noteworthy when it comes to the development of civilization. Finally, in the workplace, whites control most of the businesses and they have made it clear that people of color will not be treated equally. Many class-action federal lawsuits document this fact and these legal actions appear to be the only way to communicate with an unjust culture.
These unfair practices that invade the minds of many African Americans are causing racial tensions and this widespread disrespect will lead this country to ruin.
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"As many as 250,000 free blacks lived in the South next to their enslaved brethren, but their freedom was severely constrained. They had no rights under the law, and society at large offered them little that might suggest equality. In the North, all blacks were free, but they, too, had few legal rights. Competition with immigrants in the cities, in particular with some Irish, sometimes erupted into fierce street riots. Free blacks should not be confused with freedmen, who were emancipated ex-slaves."
http://pbsvideodb.pbs.org/resources/civilwar/primary/glossry.html
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If African Americans mention the word racism, many white people get defensive. Some will claim to be fair-minded and nonracist. According to “Talking about Racism: How Our Dialogue Gets Short-Circuited,” by Paul L. Wachtel, he claims that the use of the word “racism” is causing a communications disconnect between the races because it is inaccurate when describing white people’s attitude. According to him, the use of the word “racism” causes people to ignore the problem when they don’t consider themselves to be racist. They don’t feel that they mistreat people of color and many of them are innocent of this complaint when it is used against them. He also points out that the word “racism” is used so much that it has lost most of its impact because it is applied to situations that aren’t racist in nature and it should be known as indifference. In other words, whites don’t care about others who aren’t like them. He theorizes that in order to create better communications between the races, we need to point out this insensitivity rather than calling them racists. This word, “racism,” can lead to a breakdown in communications.
In conclusion, it should be noted that a people who are insensitive to the needs of others are not fair-minded people, in the collective sense of the word. Plus, when insensitive people parade around the world claiming that they are fair to other cultures, as they do already, it should be pointed out that their ideology of fairness is based upon a lie. America has never been fair to people of color and history verifies that Caucasians are uncomfortable around people who do not look like them. It doesn’t matter what words are used to describe the attitude of whites when it comes to racism or prejudice, in the final analysis, their lack of corrective actions to remedy a dreadful setup for people of color is wrong. Communication between the races for hundreds of years has not improved the racial climate in this nation. The attitude of racial supremacy has been constantly taught in schools, churches, and the workplace. The lack of guilt by many Caucasians is caused by a lack of a conscience when it comes to the needs of others. It appears to be imbedded in their white supremacy teachings. As long as they maintain this lack of caring and sharing, social disruptions are not only imminent, but also inevitable.
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The Encyclopedia Britannica breaks down white supremacy even further when analyzing the practice of racism and it describes it as:
“Any action, practice, or belief that reflects the racial worldview—the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races,” that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural behavioral features, and that some “races” are innately superior to others.”
The above practice is almost a RELIGION to many Caucasians in this country.
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Using the historical perspective it states that:
“Racism was at the heart of North American slavery and the overseas colonization and empire-building activities of some western Europeans, especially in the 18th century. The idea of race was invented to magnify the differences between people of European origin in the U.S. and those of African descent whose ancestors had been brought against their will to function as slaves in the American South. By viewing Africans and their descendants as lesser human beings, the proponents of slavery attempted to justify and maintain this system of exploitation while at the same time portraying the U.S. as a bastion and champion of human freedom, with human rights, democratic institutions, unlimited opportunities, and equality."
The aforementioned statement even applies today!
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The stench of racism destroys the mind of the weak and strong blacks when it is constantly shown in every facet of life. Some African Americans still suffer from racial abuse and they experience it on a daily basis. The effects of the mental cruelty behind racism are exemplified in some Blacks’ abuse of alcohol. Randall Robinson illustrated this when he wrote in his book entitled, "The Debt:"
“Grandfather drank and expressed his rage in beatings he administered to his wife and his son. Grandfather disappeared into a deep depression and never seemed the same again.”
The above quotation shows us how racism can even drive a person insane when it is shoved down a person throat day after day. The constant abuse from a system of racist practices can even affect the strongest of men. It is this widespread phenomenon of racism that makes it more powerful than the simple use of prejudice.
The closest similarity that prejudice has to racism is best described by Vincent Parillo when he states:
“Intimidation—sometimes even severe reprisals for going against social norms—ensured compliance.”
The compliance with certain prejudices is the social norm in may cases. Racism is maintained the same way because in the above case whites were forced to obey certain rules of socializing by social norms. If they dared to cross the line of socializing and helping blacks, others would deal them with in a harsh manner within their group. In the case of racism, the system of racist practices is firmly entrenched and some practices of racism after slavery originated with Black Codes that were established to keep blacks in their place. Randall Robinson stresses this point and he puts an eloquent truth in our minds regarding this racist practice when he wrote on page 574:
“For Blacks, the destructive moral crime that began in Jamestown in 1619 has yet to end.”
In conclusion, we have racism and prejudice coming together to make life miserable for millions of people around this nation. Prejudice is caused by a host of factors and racism is perpetuated for socioeconomic and political reason. They are related in several ways but racism goes much further. All groups, in some form or another, practices prejudice but racism is a system of ideological beliefs designed to enslave a group that is deemed inferior and unequal in every respect. It is a brutal system of injustice that keeps a person who is non-white in a constant state of anxiety, confusion, and depression. If racism continues, chaos in America is not only imminent but also inevitable because history has proven to us that as long as there is injustice, there can never be peace.
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"All Caucasians participate directly or indirectly in maintaining
their White Racism. White Racism is democratically distributed to all
Africans.... White Supremacy does not have to be thought about or
purposely acted on; it is a disease that feeds on itself. They have
an acceptable level of mental illness, which they call the normal
mind, and they have unacceptable mental illness, which they call
mental disease. The mental disorders that were present in the Ice
Age, Dark Ages and Feudalism are present today. They are weaved and
mixed in every aspect of their social, moral, religious, family,
sexual and violent behaviors. All past behaviors are current
behaviors, just as the study of history is the study of current
events. They are psychologically protected and reinforced until these
mental disorders are no longer visible to their mind."
Laila O. Afrika
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