Social Justice Usage
Source: https://educatenotindoctrinate.org/glossaries/race-equity-glossary-of-terms/
When a racial group oppressed by racism supports the supremacy and dominance of the dominating group by maintaining or participating in the set of attitudes, behaviors, social structures and ideologies that undergird the dominating group’s power.
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Source: Kendi, Ibram X. How To Be an Antiracist. Random House. Kindle Edition, p. 139.
In 2003…53 percent of Black people were surveyed as saying that something other than racism mostly explained why Black people had worse jobs, income, and housing than Whites, up from 48 percent a decade earlier. 3 Only 40 percent of Black respondents described racism as the source of these inequities in 2003. By 2013, in the middle of Obama’s presidency, only 37 percent of Black people were pointing to “mostly racism” as the cause of racial inequities. A whopping 60 percent of Black people had joined with the 83 percent of White people that year who found explanations other than racism to explain persisting racial inequities. The internalizing of racist ideas was likely the reason.
New Discourses Commentary
The idea of internalized racism begins with an insistence that various demographic groups have authentic and inauthentic ways of being in the world, as determinable by Theory. It is a way of discrediting the views of racial minorities when those views do not support Theory. It is a form of “internalized oppression” based on race.
Under this concept, any (racial) minority who happens to disagree with the theoretical view ascribed to that racial group (say, by thinking for herself and reaching a different conclusion) can be accused of not thinking clearly by having “internalized” the racism of the system. In fact, that person can be accused of thinking from within the “dominant” system, which has in some sense brainwashed them or offered them some kind of reward (like success) that they have cynically opted into. (See also, acting white, patriarchal reward, male approval; and neoliberal reward.)
This idea ultimately proceeds from the critical race Theoretical view, which is itself a slight perversion of Michel Foucault’s postmodern view of power, that different demographic groups have different cultures and that those exist in accordance with their position relative to sociocultural power. Thus, for example, all people of a given (socially constructed) race (like “black”) should experience racial oppression in largely the same way and should thus speak and think in relationship to the power that oppresses them in a consistent way.
When this doesn’t happen, the Theoretical excuse for it is often “internalized racism,” a claim that the person (of color) involved has been brainwashed to “think white” against his own racial authenticity, as determined by race Theory (see also, false consciousness and hegemony). (Incidentally, these socially constructed races and theorized assumptions are transparently bogus and presumptive, if not racist themselves, as the relative high success of very dark-skinned Nigerian immigrants in Western nations, e.g., readily demonstrates.)
Related Terms
Acting white; Authentic; Consciousness raising; Critical consciousness; Dominance; False consciousness; Foucauldian; Hegemony; Internalized dominance; Internalized misogyny; Internalized oppression; Internalized sexism; Internalized transphobia; Neoliberal reward; Oppression; Patriarchal reward; People of color; Position; Postmodern; Race; Social construction; Systemic power; White
Revision date: 2/4/20
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“Under this concept, any (racial) minority who happens to disagree with the theoretical view ascribed to that racial group (say, by thinking for herself and reaching a different conclusion) can be accused of not thinking clearly by having “internalized” the racism of the system. ”
I do Black my way. I had my own mind, thoughts and opinions long before there was a Critical Race Theory! Why would anyone design a course of study that “assigned” a “theoretical view” on anything to an entire racial group and attempt to do their thinking FOR them and tell them who they are?
Critical Race Theory seems to also made assumptions about all Black people (AND all White people) that it had no right to make. What makes CRT think that all Blacks are marginalized, victimized and paralyzed? I am none of those things. I don’t even know what that feels like! Also, “Groupthink” is dangerous. A collective can be easily manipulated and controlled. Not only that, people raise themselves up out of poverty as individuals or family units–never as a collective. A mind chained to a collective will only hold you back and no one can make anyone feel like a second class citizen without their permission. Racism” is not the cause of all the problems in the Black race. Self-hatred a penchant for playing “follow the leader” and not being comfortable in the skin God put them in is. As long as far to many Black people continue to reject God, and fail to grow a spine and develop a sense of genuine pride–as long as they keep trying to fix everyone and everything around them, WE will stay broken! As far as disagreeing with “Theory” goes, I DO disagree–strongly! If I have to agree with something & compromise my core values and beiiefs to keep someone or something in my life or to maintain somebody else’s respect, they’re not worth being in my life and they didn’t respect me from the start. Adults don’t need an identity “assigned” to them. They already have one. I have no problem saying “See Ya!” It’s their loss! There’s nothing wrong with my people that God and a good dose of self-love, genuine pride and kicking the false prophets & all the negativity they’re being bombarded with 24/7 and the Snake Oil to the curb won’t fix!
Listening to false prophets (liberation theology hustlers) and those trying to pound victimhood in their head 24/7, trying to “assign” them THEIR identity doesn’t help either. I’m a child of God–unique and wonderfully created by Him. After that, I’m an American, Black is my race and I come from strong West Indian stock–in that order. Americans need to get off this racial crap. Racism in America has been greatly exaggerated for years in order to advance an agenda. This is the best country in the world to be Black! Those trying to destroy our country from within are keeping us busy with BS and busywork. Everyone is too obsessed with race, anyway. I’d like to think there’s more to me than race/skin color and genitalia!
As my daddy used to say, “if you don’t believe in something & stand for something you’ll fall for anything. CRT is causing young people a lot of unnecessary grief & stress and confusion. One school is being sued by a bi-racial H.S. student and his mother to get it off the curriculum. CRT is all about power, control and stripping the individualism out of Americans. it’s also very racist against the very minorities it claims to want to help. CRT is a high-grade Snake-Oil. There’s a lot of that going around.
Happy New Year!
P.S. DEAR CRITICAL RACE THEORY:
1. NO! ALL White people are NOT racists!
2. NO! ALL White people are NOT “complicit” in “racism”.
3. NO! ALL White people alive today are not responsibile for the actions of
dead White people in the past!
4. There are no slaves and no slave owners alive to day. Nobody owes us anything.
5. NO! White people living today don’t have to account for or atone for things in
the past that happened before they were born, that they had no part in!
4. Stop blaming White people for everything bad that has ever happened to
NON-WHITES–from the extinction of the dinosaurs to ingrown
toenails!
5. Slavery financed the industrial Revolution However, unless a White person’s last
name is Rockefeller, Ford, Morgan, Mellon, Rothschild, Carnegie or Vanderbilt
and they are an heir to any of these fortunes, they didn’t benefit from slavery
in any way.
4. CRT doesn’t seem to know that we have poor White people in this country! The
color of “privilege” in this country is cash-money green–NOT White! If “White
privilege” were real there would be NO POOR WHITE PEOPLE!
5. “Allyship” is false. No one should be putting abled-bodied adults on their
“To Do List”. They don’t need anyone to speak for them. Plus the fact, this
is not a relationship based on mutual trust and respect. What you have is
an White Elitist and their Black Charity work. This doesn’t always end well.
6. CRT should show ways “microagressions” can be used as teaching moments. No
need for anyone to get bent out of shape over them.
7. Racism is not EVERYWHERE! There is no need to dismantle my country looking
for it.
8. CRT, don’t bully people who don’t agree with “Theory”. Nothing is wrong with
them. Something’s wrong with “Theory”.
Lastly, there is NO such thing as “White Supremacy” because the ONLY Supreme Being is GOD! There is a difference between someone believing they are superior to others and actually BEING superior to others! “White Supremacy” is a delusion–always was. One of Satan’s many lies. A lie that, unfortunately, told far too many White people that they were something that God never intended flawed human beings to ever be. It undermined faith in God, caused people to break all His Commandments, and live a life that went totally against what they were preaching in church on Sunday and turned men into liars, cheaters, fornicators, adulterers, rapists, perpetraters of incest, human breeders, coveters, thieves, murderers. Some became totally inhuman monsters. Nothing even remotely normal about the “bad ole’ days”. A person would have had to be able to compartmentalize very, very well, 24/7, 365 days a year, for 300 years. I think it’s time to stop going over and over slavery in the 21st Century.
Satan is a liar and his lies tend to boomarang. If someone is buying into the lie of “White Supremacy”, They’re also buying into Black inferiority–which is ALSO a lie. “Supremacy” without “inferiority” would be meaningless. They alway go hand in hand. Supremacy is a Divine trait–meant only for God. The only people talking up “White Supremacy” are “White Supremacists” and Black Liberals/Progressives! That’s speaks volumes.
There would be peace on Earth and good will toward men if everyone lived by this one simple rule:
If you wouldn’t want it done to you, don’t do it to somebody else!