BLST 101 October 3rd, 2016
Racism sparks
from the beginning of the early centuries and rise once the Europeans settled in,
into the new world. Racism is the belief that people with darker skin are
inferior to those of fair skin and white privilege being superior. Race is distinguished
by physical appearance and by the complexion of your skin. Using the skin tones
of the enslaved Africans the Europeans used it to separate between white and
black. The Europeans forced the enslaved Africans to leave their language,
culture, the way they dress, and religion back home. The enslaved Africans were
forced to live the way that Europeans wanted them.
In
Barbados was one of the countries that were the beginning of the era of
racialization. The demand for labor was high through the 1660’s and 1700’s.
Through those time periods were the biggest imports of enslaved Africans into
Barbados and from there was the start of racism. For being black you are
dehumanized and evil as oppose to white you were considered to be pure and
innocent. The Europeans made sure the enslaved Africans were degraded and to forget
everything of their culture back home. The purpose of this process was for the
enslaved Africans to lose their identity and become simply a property. Codes
were made to “control” the enslaved Africans and for the slave owners to
protect their property: the enslaved Africans. If the slave owners felt that the enslaved Africans should be punish then the judges will automatically believe their sided. The courts were corrupt anyways. The enslaved Africans did not have a say nor they had knowledge of the codes. Everything was psychological because the White people ingrained into their head that white is higher in rank and made sure the enslaved Africans know they are below them ( Cecily Jones, 2003).
The
image shown below is of a judge determining the faith of a black male in the
courtroom. During the time period in Barbados to the enslaved Africans the same
would happen to them with the codes that were made. The shades seen on the
judges hands would determine the color shade that you are is the time you would
do in prison. So if a white person were to commit the same crime that a black
person did the white person would do less to none than the black person. This
demonstrates how the system is broken and white privilege is superior even
today century.
In
the twenty first century the world is faced with the same discrimination that
was dealt back then. In the workplace there are discrimination against black
people. In the workforce they are seen to be weaker than the white people and
the odds of a black person being hired is very low because a white person would
be chosen first. The majority of the times the ones that are hiring are white
people. (Bobb & Fox, 2003) The video is the demonstration of the oppression
that dealt everyday in the lives o f black people. All the negative names described
the black community today were the same to the enslaved Africans. There are police abusing their authorities like the slave owners would.
By: Phillip Cohen
Reference
- Lawrence D. Bobo and Cybelle Fox. (2013, Dec) Race, Racism, and Discrimination: Bridging Problems, Methods, and Theory in Social Psychological Research, American Sociological Association, pp.
319-332 vol. 66, No. 4 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1519832
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-Cecily Jones (2003) Contesting the boundaries of gender, race and sexuality
in Barbadian plantation society, Women's History Review, 12:2, 195-232
-Editors, T. (2015, July 13). Your Stories Of Racism. Retrieved October 03, 2016, from http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/07/your-stories-of-racism/398117/
-Scott, W. R., & Shade, W. G. (2000). Upon these shores: Themes in the African American experience, 1600 to the present. New York: Rutledge.
Hey Julissa,
ReplyDelete1) Title: The title of your post is good because it tells the reader what he or she is going to read, but personally the title didn’t catch my attention
2)Image: The image is very good because it’s very thought provoking. It’s something that is so true in much of how today’s society “works”. Now the only thing is that there is a lot of repetition in your explanation of the image and your transition can be smoother to help the overall flow of the blog post and let it come full circle.
3) At least two in-text links to external websites: In the whole post I didn’t not see any in-text links to external websites and you need at least two of them
4) Two Outside Academic: There are two outside academic sources but the second one, by Cecily Jones, isn’t cited correctly. I would like to see where your ideas are coming from, so you need to implement some quotes.
5) Answering the prompt: The prompt is answered but is lacking some clarification. You need to make the connection clear as to why race persisting in your opinion.
6) Overall the blog post does answer the prompt, but there is somethings that need to be fixed. I feel that you need to implement a clear thesis in order for your post to be organized. Next, I feel that there is a lot of repetition. Like you say your ideas but you need to elaborate more. Finally, there are some grammatical errors, but besides that you have very strong ideas and you did a great job on using the one geographical location and you clearly showed the cycle of racism.