There is a saying, “The white man’s water is colder.” That saying references
how within white supremacy, white people’s pain, white people's ideas, and
white people's creativity are more real than non-white people’s.
In many progressive circles when you bring up anti-Black racism you’ll often hear it dismissed as a "symptom."
In many progressive circles when you bring up anti-Black racism you’ll often hear it dismissed as a "symptom."
There is a subconscious idea that
anti-Black racism isn’t real.
It usually follows with a parroted paraphrase of Karl Marx: Racism is a symptom of capitalism. We need to work on ridding the world of capitalism.
For some reason when white, Latino,
and Black people (because even non-white people participate in this) say this
they don’t realize how stand alone racist it sounds.
It is a white racial framing of
history.
According to the book "White
Racial Frame" by Joe Feagin, white racial framing is the master frame of
any thought, idea or belief that is viewed from the historical narrative of
whiteness.
Most people do not understand the context
in Karl Marx's "racism is a symptom of capitalism," was stated or the
history of the man who came up with the theory. The idea was from is taken from
his 1847 essay “Wage Labor in Capital.”
Marx father converted from Judaism to
Lutheranism to escape one of the oldest forms of racism, antisemitism. And
though Marx was Jewish he had some very antisemitic writing. As there are Black
people who want to believe that racism can be behaved away with
respectability politics there are Jewish people who truly think that if they
just changed their name and agree with antisemitism, that antisemitism will go
away.
Oppressed people often make up logical reasons for their oppression and they often like to imagine that the basis of their oppression is something they can control, even the great and troubled ones, like Karl Marx.
According to Plater Robinson’s book “Deathly Silence, Everyday People in the Holocaust” anti-antisemitism, which is racism, can be traced back at least to 72 A.D. when the Romans expelled the Jews from Palestine. During the Crusades before the Christians killed the Muslims in Israel they killed the Jews at home first.
These events are clearly long before the existence of capitalism and disrupts Marx entire theory on racism.
Oppressed people often make up logical reasons for their oppression and they often like to imagine that the basis of their oppression is something they can control, even the great and troubled ones, like Karl Marx.
According to Plater Robinson’s book “Deathly Silence, Everyday People in the Holocaust” anti-antisemitism, which is racism, can be traced back at least to 72 A.D. when the Romans expelled the Jews from Palestine. During the Crusades before the Christians killed the Muslims in Israel they killed the Jews at home first.
These events are clearly long before the existence of capitalism and disrupts Marx entire theory on racism.
Jewish is a manmade category.
Black is manmade category.
Both are valid categories in the
present era.
Capitalism isn’t a tree with racist, homophobic, classist, and sexist leaves.
A better analogy is weaponry.
Racism, classism, and sexism are all
equal weapons to oppress people. They are EQUAL oppressors. Classism isn’t more
valid, because it is the only one that directly impacts white, cis-men.
The real disease isn’t capitalism. And the problem isn’t even a disease. The problem is a irrational killer, in cultures viewed through the white supremacy’s lens, the killer’s name is oppression.
The real disease isn’t capitalism. And the problem isn’t even a disease. The problem is a irrational killer, in cultures viewed through the white supremacy’s lens, the killer’s name is oppression.
Oppression is carried out with various
violent weaponry.
Oppression occurred during the era of the monarchy, continued on with imperialism and exists now within capitalism.
Oppression occurred during the era of the monarchy, continued on with imperialism and exists now within capitalism.
One of the newer weapons is the
anti-Black form of racism. An older weapons is anti-antisemitism. An even older
weapon is sexism. Newer weapons are always more efficient weapons, but any
weapon can kill you if you know how to use it correctly.
The weapon of racism may have initially been used just for hunting purposes, so only dangerous during hunting i.e. in relationships when Black people are poor and white people are rich.
Currently the weapon of anti-Black
racism is used for all kinds of purposes. I’m not poor yet I experience racism.
Anti-Black racism has moved beyond
its initial point and if you can’t see that, it’s because you’re probably not
acknowledging your white racial framing of history.
A person of any race can have a white racial framing of history.
A person of any race can have a white racial framing of history.
Many people argue that race is a
manmade concept. That is not real.
What isn’t a manmade concept? Sexism
is manmade. Homophobia is manmade. Poverty is a manmade concept. War is a
manmade concept.
Should we not discuss those either? Is
ending war a pointless conversation, because the root of it is capitalism and
money? I doubt many in progressive circles would shut down the war conversation
to discuss capitalism.
If I took a gun and shot you in the head, because of an imaginary fight I got in with you in my own head is my action not something that should be discussed?
If I took a gun and shot you in the head, because of an imaginary fight I got in with you in my own head is my action not something that should be discussed?
The implication when you imply racism
is a symptom of capitalism means that you assume that racism is actually
rational.
Racism is simply a quicker way to make
money.
Racism is validated by cognitive
dissonance. Anti-Black racism is validated by the white racial frame. That
filters everything from art, to culture, to history from the white supremacy
perspective. It even filters people’s pain. Anti-Black racism isn’t real,
because Black isn’t real. Black people aren’t real people.
That’s what saying racism isn’t real is saying.
That’s what saying racism isn’t real is saying.
Hijacking race conversation with the
“real reason” is capitalism just proves that racism has nothing to do with
capitalism, because even within anti-capitalism circles the white man’s water
is still colder, even if he’s Jewish.
