What is racism?
The definition of racism is generally described as one’s belief that their race or ethnicity accounts for differences in character or ability, which makes them superior to others. Racism has become so ingrained in society because children began witnessing racial discrimination and prejudicial practices at an early age and it carries into adulthood.
Racism abounds. Mostly everyone, at some time or another, has been subjected to some form of racism whether it was blatant or subliminal, concealed within or the subject of a joke, or just flagrant bigotry. Too often, while many of us find racism intolerable and personally choose to have no part in it, we inadvertently condone the practice by remaining silent. Our silence also sends the message to our children that racism and being a racist is okay.
A 2009 research study on children between the age of 5 and 11, “Developmental Antecedents and Social and Academic Consequences of Stereotype-Consciousness in Middle Childhood,” conducted by researchers from Rush and Yale University and published in the journal Child Development, found that children become sensitive to their individual ethnic and racial group at a young age. This is in part due to learning about racism in schools, as well as learning how to stereotype different ethnic groups when it comes to intelligence and educational abilities.
These patterns of learning reinforce bias regarding their own race or ethnic group, and it affects the way they respond to situations academically and culturally. The study shows that children believe the ideology behind racism and begin to buy into the beliefs associated to their cultural race. It also shows that when tested using standardized tests many children perform below academic ability in a “self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Throughout history, the question of what is racism perpetuates the many forms racism takes which in turn feeds and encourages the stereotypical behavior across many ethnic groups. Becoming aware and learning about them are critical first steps to begin to change attitudes and practices and break a cyclical and destructive lineage passed from one generation to the next.
There are many historical and institutional examples of the detrimental effects of racism. One has only to look at the disenfranchisement of Native Americans, the enslavement of African Americans, and the so-called “scientific” theory of racism, which willing believers have assigned superior notions based on physical attributes that define different races and ethnic groups.
We also have the old and new examples of the effects of institutional racism from Jim Crow to Affirmative Action, inequality in housing, employment, and educational opportunities are all forms describing the meaning of what is racism. And of course, there is the new form of racism emerging with the issue of what to do about the nearly twelve million illegal Mexican immigrants currently living in America, and those that continually slip through our borders. Racism manages to raise its head in subtle and not-so-subtle ways in the debate.
Lack of knowledge and fear are the main two factors that feed racism. Understanding our differences, embracing our commonalities, and sharing knowledge can begin to minimize, and hopefully eliminate, the ravages of racism. Passing on such knowledge and education to our children is the only hope we have to win the war against racism — and thereby eradicating it from society.
Sources:
http://www.usariseup.com
McKown et al. “Developmental Antecedents and Social and Academic Consequences of Stereotype Consciousness in Middle Childhood”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01359.x/full
“Awareness of racism affects how children do socially and academically,” www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091113083301.htm
Comments
Anti-racist is just a code word for anti-white
Nobody is flooding and “integrating” black nations and ONLY black nations with non-blacks and calling native blacks evil racists for opposing their replacement. This is happening in white nations and ONLY in white nations. They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white. Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white. Its genocide.
I can't be silent any longer.
I can't be silent any longer.
Everybody says there is this race problem. Everybody says this race problem will be solved when the third world pours into every white country and only into White countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this race problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and “assimilating” with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this race problem is for every White country and only White countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this race problem and this race problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into every Black country and only into Black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a race problem. I am talking about the final solution to the Black problem?
And how long would it take any sane Black man to notice this and what kind of psycho Black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the White race, liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
Name Calling
No matter what its called, the name will never change the history or the reality of racism, and its very blatant place in the U.S. Racism has been going on for generatiions with hope that each generation will make a change in the right direction to end racism...but now it seems like instead of moving forward to end racism the U.S. is moving backward into the direction of promoting more racism...This is evident in the way that our current biracial President..has to produce his birth certificate after he had been elected into office..this is a reminder of how back in slavery days when a negro walking down the street was told to show his PAPERS!!!!
Racism
Racism is culture that grew since the colonial days, whether colonies were owned by the British, French, Spaniards, or Portuguese. Racism is a system that creates a barrier of difference between one's skin color or beliefs. Racism happens in most nations, especially in the Western hemisphere.