Racial Justice- A World away from Racism

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  1. A world away from racism. The fight for racial justice by Joji Gail Johns
  2. since the beginning of time, skin color equaled race and power.
  3. People who weren't white also known as people
  4. of color were often seen as unequal people
  5. who did not have the privilege similar to those who were white or passed as white
  6. race is a social construction where meanings
  7. change over time reflects current science politics,
  8. public attitudes based on physical traits, differences, not biological
  9. color blind is a term used to describe the act or practice
  10. disregarding or ignoring racial characteristics or
  11. being uninfluenced by racial prejudice.
  12. The concept of color blindness is often promoted
  13. by those who dismiss the importance of race.
  14. In order to proclaim the end of racism,
  15. individual racism discrimination that occurs at the micro
  16. level where one person racially discriminates another person.
  17. The seven circles of whiteness,
  18. the seven circles of whiteness is a learning tool that puts a name to the
  19. Myra of ways that whiteness exists as a construct in America culture
  20. by highlighting specific behaviors and thinking patterns
  21. associated with each of the categories.
  22. The seven circles of whiteness also explores the
  23. overlap within the way that whiteness exists.
  24. This learning tool uses the concept of a circle to represent
  25. the duality of sequence and overlap that exists within whiteness,
  26. which helps to unbind rigidity around the
  27. way that whiteness has historically been defined.
  28. The seven circles of whiteness explores both
  29. the covert and overt waste that racism presents
  30. and ends with a caveat that anti-racism is not a
  31. destination but a continuous journey of learning and unlearning.
  32. 18 77 San Francisco, California,
  33. White Americans turned on the thousands of
  34. Chinese workers violence uproar and unfolded an
  35. anti Chinese rally that torch murdered and looted making its way to Chinatown.
  36. 1917 East Saint Louis Illinois.
  37. White mob stoned and murdered black people wildly.
  38. The mob shaped from earlier incidents of when
  39. black residents were armed and killing the men
  40. in a car who were out to harm them.
  41. The men who were killed were actually police officers.
  42. 1923 Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
  43. after four police officers were killed during a shootout with a black man.
  44. The mayor called and relied on local Ku Klux Klan
  45. to enforce black and American residents as they
  46. were deemed to not be quote law abiding
  47. 1943 Los Angeles, California,
  48. a group of sailors reported to be allegedly
  49. attacked by some Mexican American zoo suitor.
  50. They were beaten and stripped of their zoot suits
  51. in public while the local media and newspapers instigated this
  52. 2020
  53. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 46
  54. year old George Floyd was murdered by a 44 year old police officer while kneeling on
  55. Floyd's neck over nine minutes while Floyd was
  56. handcuffed and laying face on the ground.
  57. Uh In 18 77 the picture of two kids um
  58. San Francisco Chinatown after their home was burned down.
  59. Uh 1917, that's the picture of Illinois. Um
  60. where the mob came and started torching down the houses
  61. in 1923. This is in Pennsylvania. That was when um the Ku Klux Klan rallied
  62. um called by the mayor
  63. in 1943. That was the Zoot Suit riot or picture actually
  64. of a Mexican American youth uh being stripped from their suit suits.
  65. And in 2020 a picture of George Floyd
  66. along with the picture on the right side and you see the
  67. police officer clearly kneeling in the back of George Floyd's neck.
  68. Lots of our ancestors came to the United States as immigrants,
  69. people who leave their own countries in order to settle permanently in another
  70. unbeknownst to them, they would experience segregation,
  71. separation and hate crimes in which target victims based
  72. on their perceived membership in a certain social group.
  73. Due to early colonialism.
  74. The aim was for economic dominance from
  75. succeeding group and practice culture and identity dissolving
  76. economic dependence while controlling people or lands
  77. disparity was unfolded and continued to unfold in today's era,
  78. oppressive factors such as slave capitalism,
  79. created profits for the European and
  80. colonial American societies who legally owned them
  81. historically,
  82. violence and exploitation were prime examples
  83. of oppressive factors to form oppression
  84. and powerlessness and reinforce hierarchies to remain in control.
  85. Jim Crow laws,
  86. legalized discrimination and segregation through laws further served to keep
  87. black people as the quote bondsman of subjugation and exploitation,
  88. assigned seat of buses,
  89. assigned water fountains are prime examples of the
  90. Jim Crow law which enforced racial segregation.
  91. The Black Power movement empowered the culture for African Americans in the US
  92. that aimed to have the right to own businesses such as bookstores,
  93. farms, media, school, printing press and clinics.
  94. Cesar Chavez touched and moved his community from his association with the N F W
  95. A that he has a street in San Francisco on behalf of his memory,
  96. civil rights movement overthrew racial
  97. discrimination throughout the United States.
  98. Although discrimination by Jim Crow laws,
  99. it is protected under the federal law for human rights.
  100. The gay Liberation Front was created instantly after the Stonewall riot.
  101. It was composed of a gay community that later
  102. formed other groups providing a platform for gay rights.
  103. Zana
  104. Bryant was only 15 years old when she petitioned her local city
  105. council to take down a monument to Robert E Lee in Charlottesville,
  106. Virginia.
  107. Her heroism as a youth activist was a courageous effort
  108. as she raised issues and awareness of racial justice.
  109. The purpose of this design,
  110. the significance of the rose being able to survive and break
  111. through obstacles in order to be what it wants to be.
  112. We learn about the hardship experienced by others throughout history.
  113. And how many resisted from being stereotyped.
  114. The lack of awareness for individuals to take part in cultural life and
  115. take immoral advantage of them is the system of exploitation and exclusion.
  116. One that I refuse to take part of
  117. the strategies for this game was easy.
  118. If you were not white, you were never going to win to begin with.
  119. The non-white players would have been confined to its ships while warfare
  120. of the surrounding ships shoot down other ships closed by causing chaos.
  121. This is similar to being oppressed in a world you once knew is no longer safe.
  122. The more the player catches the enslaved people,
  123. the more profits the player gained by exploiting labor,
  124. creating a new pathway to laws needing to be followed as a form of quote freedom
  125. to the natives who are no longer free
  126. as the creator of this board game.
  127. I would not play it since I know that
  128. it was intentionally biased and unfair behavior such as what's
  129. displayed in our history is reasoning to why lots
  130. of us carry the generational trauma that was inflicted.
  131. Race or racial ideology is rooted in our history and culture.
  132. Our identities are formed by race due to racism.
  133. People adopt the idea to duplicate and enforce
  134. inequality which becomes barriers to people's voting rights,
  135. employment,
  136. access to education and mistreatment in the criminal justice system.
  137. Remember,
  138. racial ideology are essentially judgments about who
  139. is worthy who belongs and who doesn't.
  140. Racism has been the product of specific historical and social
  141. forces and such as it is subject to change.
  142. But it's difficult to predict where we'll end up.