Xristos Katsaros
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The Narrative of Racial Divisions
When we open up to conversations about how we can guarantee unalienable rights to every person born, we need to talk about who is receiving the least rights in our current system. From class, race, gender, sex, to ability status, specific people are struggling to survive based on social norms and widely-accepted ideologies, and they make up a huge part of the world. According to the most recent statistics published by the Pew Research Center, there are more Americans who feel like we need to make more changes in our society in order to reach racial equality, but an even bigger number of Americans don’t believe systemic racism is a problem—or possibly doesn’t exist. In particular, the race in most denial of systemic racism (white) still agrees that more changes need to be made, but at the individual level. This kind of worldview doesn’t take into account how institutional racism reinforces and reproduces individual racism, and is in itself the root of the problem. It also reflects our nation’s official narrative of the history of race and racism, which works as a tool used to obscure the reality of institutional racism from those who are not victims of it, and prevents the working class from creating a unified revolutionary political force.
By Xristos Katsaros5 years ago in The Swamp