Why Speaking About Racism Is Not Starting a Race War
Racist ideology has been around since the earliest days of European penetration of the Americas. America would become a Protestant, White supremacist nation with these ideas boiled into the minds of Whites on Sunday, as preached from pulpits long before the Civil War. Today, some whites refuse to recognize the brutality of white supremacy tied to slavery and often try to distance themselves from it by coming up with arguments that have little validity, or worse mask the issues.
Complaining about one using the word “racism or racist” too much hides a deeper reality. We need only be reminded that some have gone so far as to claim that we were living in a post-racial society. Others, out of ignorance, or in a veiled attempt to hide their hatred, rely on a one sentence lie, such as claiming that those using the word “racism” are starting a “race war.” Some racists use the argument that “Whites” are afraid to go to certain parts of the community when pedophiles and rapists are all over the more affluent parts of San Antonio.
Black Progress, White Backlash
Racism became worse after every advancement for Blacks and Browns. This was true every time Black civil rights was improved. When the Southern slave owners lost the Civil War, and Reconstruction gave Black civil rights, racist whites created Jim Crow law. When the Blacks were able to get a good education at Freedmen Bureaus schools they were burned down. When the 1964 Civil Rights was passed, racists refused to desegregate.
When the 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed, racists sabotaged voting districts. When Obama was elected a racist rebellion began and later a fascist was elected—Donal Trump. In fact, race consciousness replaced class consciousness and works to prevent any type of class rebellion by dividing people with the false concept of race.
Say the Word: Racism
I intentionally use the words racist and racism quite a lot, and rightfully so. The adjective racist is not used enough and tends to be avoided unless one speaks truth to power. Bigoted conservatives are really frightened of this word. Racism, racist, racist, racist, racist! We must always discuss the power of white supremacy and the horrors it has caused.
Racism has also ruined Whites by propagandizing them into thinking they are superior. In revealing the power of white supremacy and white privilege, one can see how racist social structures are cemented into the brains of the living. America was organized around racialized thought patterns passed on from generation to generation, from one idiot to another. Trump has used this to incite the ignorant and racist minded people in the country.
When Racism Becomes Entertainment
American society has been poisoned by racism in thousands of systematically arranged images and structures that have infused minds with the conscious and unconscious trappings of white supremacy. These images are found in song, dance, art, film, and even cartoons. The movie classics are filled with racist stereotypes, from Birth of a Nation (1915) to the 1933 classic King Kong. Gone with the Wind is probably the most racially motivated film classic produced because it sympathized with the southern slave-owning plantation class of “gentlemen” and their brutal institution of slavery.
The King Kong Stereotype
According to Elizabeth and Stuart Ewen (2008), the original King Kong movie is about a savage beast from the “dark continent” that desires a white “civilized” woman. The old racial stereotype of a dark savage beast enamored to a white woman against her will is central to the premise of the movie. According to the authors, “King Kong was Adolf Hitler’s favorite film,” and Trump’s favorite dictator is Hitler.
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