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WHAT IS RACISM?WHAT IS RACISM?
Racism involves the belief in racial differences, which acts as a justification for non-equal treatment (which some regard as "discrimination") of members of that race.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT RACISM?
Racism is a product of capitalism. It grew out of early capitalism’s use of slaves for the plantations of the New World, it was consolidated in order to justify western and white domination of the rest of the world and it flourishes today as a means of dividing the working class between white and Muslim or black, and native and immigrants or asylum seekers.
The first clear evidence of racism occurred at
the end of the 16th16th century with the start of the slave trade from Africa to Britain and to America.
capitalism = economic system - private ownership of the means of production, -creation of goods or services for profit or income, -accumulation of capital, -competitive markets, -voluntary exchange
DO YOU KNOW SOME EXAMPLES OF DO YOU KNOW SOME EXAMPLES OF RACISM?RACISM?
School Finance: Millions of African American and Latino young people in the United States don’t get an education equal to that of most whites, partly because the urban schools they go to don’t have as much money as the schools in the white suburbs. This is because the country has decided that much of the money for schools should come from local property taxes. So in communities where the houses and businesses are less expensive, the schools don’t get enough money to provide a high quality education. This is unfair. This is institutional racism. If we financed schools differently every student, regardless of his or her "race", could go to a high quality school that was the equal of the schools other students attend.
Wealth Created During Slavery: From the 1600’s to 1863 slave labor by African Americans created a tremendous amount of wealth in the United States. This wealth was all taken by white people. When slavery was ended, the wealth that the former slaves had created was not shared with them. The effects of this continue today because whites have been able to pass wealth down from generation to generation through inheritance. In addition, discrimination in jobs has continued to limit access to wealth for many people of color. So white people as a whole are still wealthier today than people of color because of the wealth whites took from the labor of slaves.
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In the suite, on the newsEverybody dog food
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All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
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Will me, thrill meYou can never kill me
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Don't you black or white me
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All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
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I am the victim of police brutality, nowI'm tired of bein' the victim of hate
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I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...Set me free
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Trepidation, speculationEverybody allegation
In the suite, on the newsEverybody dog food
Black male, black mailThrow your brother in jail
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
Tell me what has become of my rightsAm I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, nowI'm tired of bein' the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad nameI can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I really do hate to say itThe government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin'He wouldn't let this be, no, no
MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON "They Don't Care About Us""They Don't Care About Us"
MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON "They Don't Care About Us""They Don't Care About Us"
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All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
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MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON "They Don't Care About Us""They Don't Care About Us"Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone badSituation, segregationEverybody allegation
In the suite, on the newsEverybody dog foodKick me, strike me
Don't you wrong or right me
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about
All I wanna say is thatthey don't really care about
All I wanna say is thatThey don't really care about us
VOCABULARY
sue sue
TO SUE
TO FULFILL
SPECULATION
ALLEGATION
PROCLAMATION
SEGREGATION
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law)
- To bring to an end; complete
- a formal public statement
- Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.
-The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, especially as a form of discrimination.