Institutional Racism in America (original) (raw)

People of color have never been free in AMERICA. The social construct of race has always been used to acquire and maintain power and to create artificial impediments that separate, control and silence the black and brown population. This social construction of “race” in AMERICA was constructed by elite white power to help construct artificial disparities between whites and blacks to describe black inferiority and white superiority. The fundamental suppositions of white innocence and black guilt are all part of what Charles Mills wrote, “The terms of the Racial Contract mean that nonwhite ‘sub-personhood’ is enshrined simultaneously with white personhood.” Racist ideas have long been intertwined into the social fabric of AMERICA. Ibram Kendi, the director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University noted that, “There has not been a society-wide and intensive challenge to racist ideas in the US…They’ve [non-black people] been taught that we are criminals, that we are violent that we are predators and think we need to be monitored.” Americans must decide whether AMERICA will truly be an interracial, multicultural democracy or whether AMERICA once again remains distinctly racist, unequal and immersed heavily in its racist past.