Racism Is A Major Part Of Our

Asante is an author, filmmaker and professor of creative writing at Morgan State University.

Philosophical Musings

The New Jim Crow is no accident. The overpopulated, underfunded, predominantly black inner city public schools that I attended, the ones with bars covering the windows and no textbooks, are not accidental. The school-to-prison pipeline is no accident. Racism is a lot of things—cancerous, insidious, learned, dangerous, destructive, dumb, vicious, institutional—but not accidental.]

Racism Is A Major Part Of Our - have thought

Wednesday, May 6, Roots: Racism for Dummies Racism has been a major part of human interaction for all of human history. Ever since the first differences among us were noted, they have been used as indicators of something ominous. The belief that God burdened the white race with 'managing' the heathen was the majority opinion. It was called 'Manifest Destiny' in America. But they believed in a hierarchy, with the 'civilized' white man at the top. That was the justification of European imperialism for centuries, as they sought to bring order to the world, through their world view. Racism Is A Major Part Of Our.