It seems surprising that we still use Race as a categorical demographic despite the word having no truth, being fabricated, and its toxicity. And this is not to suggest that Racism is equally fake. It saddens me to accept that Racism is a diagnosis for a form of hatred. Racism, is articulated elegantly by Rev. William J. Barber as, "a strategic hate that has an agenda" (Barber, W.J (2017). Public Speech at Poor Peoples Campaign, August 15, 2017) . We all are capable of hate. And racism is a schism between those needing to tighten down a decorated shroud of hateful fallacies that promoted their industrial economic agenda and a reality that we are an integration of evolved bio mechanisms that are uniquely identifiable through genetics, yet our foundation, anatomy, and physiology functions indistinguishably, all worthy of wellness. It's unfortunate that we camouflage the ethnic hatred with this schism by validating a fictitious word, Race.I want Racism to be identified by its real source, Ethnic Hate. We validate the meaning of Race by perpetuating its usage. We still use the concept to describe and acknowledge the ignorance of people still stubborn enough to believe we are differentiated by the illusion of Race. It seems ignorant to spend time on this schism rooted in the word "Race" when we have the real ethnic, cultural, bigoted, prejudice, economic, social, and ideological schisms stressing this adolescent American nation. The use of Race as the root word for the concept of racism, shields the propagation of underlying malice, going undetected in our social systems because Race itself is undetectable. There are not any indicators for someone who is racist because there are not any indicators for Race. There are indicators for someone who is phobic, prejudice, or discriminant because their statements and policies make it indicative.
The real concept under attack from imperial ideologies is ethnicity and culture. Ethnicity aligns more with the real human distinguishers. My study of race, my encounter with my "racism", and the unfolding of the intelligence on the subject has allowed me to differentiate between the fiction, ideology, rationality, economics, bigotry, xenophobia and atrocity. I can also be sad for how it has continued to be used for 600 years (Smedley, A., 1997). I hope to share more perspective on the covert and micro absurdities of Race, the concept, still lurking and giving traction to our unfair and unbalanced social constructs. Race might be cultural sect-ism, inspired by prosperity, more likely rapacity, and corroded by hate, but it is still illusionary.
It would help shift the narrative around our human nature, to call racism what it really is... Ethnicism.
eth ·nic ·ism
/eTH 'ni' sizem /noun
- prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different ethnicity based on the belief that one's own ethnicity is superior.
- the belief that all members of each ethinicity possess characteristics or abilities specific to that ethnicity, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another ethnicity or ethnicities.
- a form of neurotic hatred treatable with love, cultural immersion, and humility.
References:
Smedley, A., (1997). Origin Of The Idea Of Race. Public Broadcasting Service. http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-09.htm
