Thursday, June 25, 2015

                  RACISM, PREJUDICE, BIGOTRY, DISCRIMINATION, OPPRESSION

Racist-:a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others. 
Racism-: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
Racism depends on the ability to give or withhold social benefits, facilities, services, opportunities etc., from someone who is entitled to them, and is denied on the basis of race, color or national origin. The source of power can be formal or informal, legal or illegal, and is not limited to traditional concepts of power. Intent is irrelevant; the focus is on the result of the behavior.

Prejudice-: discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
Bigotry-:  a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
bigot is someone who doesn't tolerate people of different races or religions.

Oppression is the systematic subjugation of a social group by another social group with access to social power. Power is the ability to control access to resources, the ability to influence others, and access to decision makers. 

Institutional racism is any system of inequality based on race. It can occur in institutions such as public government bodies, private business corporations (such as media outlets), and universities (public and private). The term was introduced by Black Power activists Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton in the late 1960s.[1] 
Discrimination is behavior, intentional or not, which negatively treats a person or a group of people based on their racial origins. In the context of racism, power is a necessary precondition for discrimination.

Racism is both overt and covert, and it takes three closely related forms: individual, institutional, and systemic. 


Based on the above dictionary definitions it can be clearly seen, that the term racist, as used by the media, is in effect another way of hiding and obfuscating the actual definition of the word racist and its individual and institutional expression in society. 
The use of a word, an expression of thought, an implementation of an act of violence, stems from the systems philosophical foundation.
Racism is institutional. It is embedded, in all the institutions that uphold the system. 
Institutions are the pillars that maintain a society.
The philosophy upon which that society is built, permeates its institutions. 
Education, Religion, Economy, Media, Politics.
Inherent in all those institutions, is the permeating thought process of superiority and inferiority.
All the institutions teach or express racist philosophies. Each tailored to the means of the institution.
Education teaches the glories of western civilization past and present.
Religion teaches the Chosen and the sacrifice of a white image to save humanity.
Economics and Politics are dominated by one group.
The media, expresses and reinforces those concepts that serves the purpose of the system.
In totality the system teaches its superiority and its chosen right to be.
All else pales before that philosophy, and all else is a result, an effect, of that cause. 
The philosophy of superiority and chosen, has given terms such as "the white man's burden" and the "indispensable nations" as modern day expressions of that superiority complex.
Racism is the expression of an act that by definition upholds the superiority of one ethnic group over another through the control of power and the means to exercise that power through the systems institutions.
The system cannot exist without it.
Prejudice, Bigotry, Discrimination, Intolerance, and Oppression are the effects of the same root cause. Racism. 
Any of the above terms, are more fitting expressions of the day to day acts that take place in the society.
Using the term racist as all inclusive, only hides the inherent and permeating racism that resides in all the systems institutions.
Oppressed People can do all of the above, except be racist. 
Racism implies and act applied or implemented from a position of power, through the systems institutions to insure the superiority and continuity of the the ethnic group.
Racism is now and has been from inception an integral part of the system.
It was written into the system and integrated into the systems institutions.
Words, names, expression of ideas, symbols, acts of violence.
None of the above is racism.
Removing a symbol (flag) wont solve the problem.
Berating officials or anyone else for saying certain words, wont solve the problem.
Prayer meetings, vigils, forgiveness for acts, condemnation of the perpetrator, may create a social feel good moment, but that too wont solve the problem.
Bigots, exist in every nook and cranny in and out of the system.
Institutional racism,so deeply ingrained in the system, gives them the power to preform their actions.
On a regular cyclical basis, these acts become the face of a nation and within each cycle, if enough condemnation is aired, the nation concedes some superficial external expression.
The continuity of the system, is dependent upon maintaining its form.
Superficial concessions have no impact on it.
Racism is one of the cornerstones of the foundation upon which the system was built.
It is an expression of the philosophy of supremacy.
The philosophy of superior and inferior.
The philosophy of chosen and the philosophy of indispensable.
No matter what words or actions are said and done to placate,
the system continues to implement policy that insures its continuity.
The society continues to support that system to insure their comfort.
To maintain that supremacy, it cannot be removed.
Removing racism from the system, is asking for the removal of a major cog in 
a complex machine.
Remove it, and the systems raison d"etre no longer exists.
So it is in the medias interest, to obfuscate its true meaning.
Ethnic Slavery, was the grossest expression of the systems racism.
Colonialism, the name and replacement for slavery was slavery's daughter.
Colonialism enslaved entire nations.
So the system morphed from enslaving individuals to enslaving nations.
It morphed from free labour to minimum wage labour.
It morphed from plantations to industrialized metropolis.
The system grows, develops and advances in the same manner that the society grows, develops and advances.
As the society grows and adapts to new inventions, so does the system.
It morphs whenever necessity demands. However, its root raison d'etre never changes.
Whatever new name change is involved, whatever new system is put in place, whatever superficial concessions are given, the system remains intact and its foundation remains unchanged.
Its philosophy, established some 2000 years ago continues to insure that Western Civilization remains supreme.

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