Indian Ethnic Wear Quotes

And third, racism and ethnic discrimination are not simply blatant acts. They are more than engaging in the use of a racial or ethnic slur. They are more than wearing white sheets or burning crosses. Racism is an institutionalized ideology that creates and justifies unearned power, privilege, and profit for one group of people due to their race or ethnicity at the expense of others while systematically protecting, maintaining, and advancing said power, privilege, and profit. This institutionalized ideology is politically and economically manifested as white affirmative action, which ensures that discrimination protects access to education and jobs for less qualified white people. To describe racism and ethnic discrimination as ignorant feelings of superiority due to skin pigmentation creates a definition that helps the vast majority of whites benefiting from racist social structures to honestly believe they are not racist, and therefore they can express outrage and indignation if ever accused or questioned. Racists can really be nice, loving people who advocate colorblindness. Because they have a Black friend or an Indian grandchild, they are experts in the struggle as they speak over a person of color, hoping to educate that person on what racism might actually constitute. Racism is not a belief but complicity with an ideology. Annihilating this ideology is not learning how to be nice or more kind to people of color.