9 Feb 2024 6:39 am
(PART III OF IV)
Cannonpointer: "Your pretense that racism is a product of the very capitalism that it predates has been blown to smithereens. But you continue blithely on as if on read-only. You haven't come to terms with being refuted on that point - and you should. It's an important issue.
Please remind me of exactly how I've been refuted on that point. Thank you.
With that asked, as I've mentioned before, and as Cannonpointer ignored, institutionalized or systemic racism isn't hard-wired into our brains. The proof of that is that it hasn't always existed. I emphasized institutionalized or systemic racism as it stands distinct from interpersonal racism, which is defined by the simple yet illogical hatred of other human beings based on their typically meaningless pigmentation. Institutionalized racism is delineated by power, the power of people, virtually always white people, to fire, hire, or not hire a person based on their pigmentation. It's also defined as the power not to rent or sell a dwelling or to evict someone predicated on their pigmentation. Most significantly, it's exemplified by the ability to arrest, indict, convict, incarcerate, and or carry out a state-sponsored execution of a person based on their utterly meaningless pigmentation.
The manifestation of institutionalized racism was timed with the rise of capitalism, for it's intimately interwoven with that of capitalism. As I've noted previously, the emergence of institutionalized racism coincided with the instituting of the transatlantic chattel slave trade. It greatly assisted the growth of Great Britain as a world power. And, as institutionalized racism's influence grew, it became an effective way of dividing workers who might seek to supplant capitalism. So, too, did it serve to "justify" the enslavement and general brutalization of human beings. Toward that end, Christianity was enlisted to quell the objections of Christians who might otherwise have issues with chattel slavery (see the Romanus pontifex, papal bull of Pope Nicolas V, Portugal, 8 January 1455).
From that, newly minted capitalists began to amass gigantic fortunes through the primitive accumulation afforded them by chattel slavery, which initiated the cycle of exploitation that keeps billions of people in a state of inequality that continues to this day. That contradiction was resolved by instituting racial hatred to dehumanize black people. So, no, my assertion that racism - institutionalized racism is a byproduct of capitalism hasn't been "blown to smithereens."
Cannonpointer: "I think you have serious hang-ups about race, racism, etc. I'm sensing white guilt. Hell, I'm smelling it."
I don't understand that response. I stated that to have a negative experience with a racialized person and to then "extrapolate [that] experiences to where one assumes that all black people are dishonest is racist and childish." I then noted that I have a well-to-do black neighbor who, although very honest, owns a business from which he and his wife amass/steal large amounts of worker-produced wealth every day. The point is that people like Cannonpointer focus on the petty theft committed by some black people while ignoring the colossal theft committed by capitalists of all pigmentation. I don't see how that suggests I "have serious hang-ups about race, racism, etc."
http://www.slp.org/pdf/statements/siu_chart.pdf
(END OF PART III)