institutional racism - film

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it's complicated.

"we are in a civil war [between oppressed nonwhite who wish to assimilate, against those who don't]; while having a gender, spiritual and class struggle, existing in a global system of white supremacy [white control over nonwhite lives]."

*contributed by osaze okera @ www.myspace.com/thinkblackinstitute

paul mooney

long live the Black Arts Movement!

race over class?

"as a group, white women workers wanted to maintain the racial hierarchy that granted them higher status in the labor force than Black women. those white women who supported employment of Black women in unskilled trades felt they should be denied access to skilled process. their active support of institutional racism caused constant hostility between them and Black women workers. to avoid uprisings, many plants chose to hire either one race or the other. in plants where both groups were present, the conditions under which Black women worked were much worse than those of white female workers. the refusal of white women to share dressing rooms, bathrooms, or lounge areas with Black women often meant that Black women were denied access to these comforts. in general Black women workers were continually abused because of the racist attitudes of white women workers, and of the white working public as a whole."

*excerpted from ain't i a woman by bell hooks, pg.135

institutional racism....

"[Black people] tend to get substantially longer prison terms than whites convicted of the same crimes, even when the Black person is a first time offender and the white person a second- or third-time offender."

*excerpted from Black-on-Black violence by amos n. wilson, pg.23

African proverbs

"it is better to be loved than feared."

--senegal

*excerpted from African proverbs edited by katherine kim, pg.56

bdp posse

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