Johnson PPD Ch. 3

I beleive the author thesis is paraphased best at; Capitalism is a huge reason why the United States and the world are affected by racism today. "...becasue capitalism played a major role in the development of white privelge and still plays a magor role in its perpetation." I believe he is trying to show his readers that there are privelges that people atoumatically get and some have to be earned. That brings up a huge problem that they are connected and one can't be cancelled out without the other too.

Capitalism is the process of using labor and resources to make a profit, that has the people working for for a living and others that run the company. The people that run the company are called capitalist. One main thing about capitalism is that one mans misfortune could be onther mans fortune. That is how the United States is ran, and it can be accomplished through technology, threatening workers, and moving productivity to another place. Capitalism makes up classes where the rich own the most and the working class (the majority) own less. In todays world though, the middle class is shrinking and its becoming a small rich class and big poor class. Racism was started early by capitalist from Great Britian colonizing other places and exploiting there labor. They thought it was moraly ok and made up reason for it, hence racism as it is today. They thought white was correct by god and everything else was impure. And through that Capitalistic view, people have committed genocide, had numerous conquests, and ignored signed treaties. Through those comes domination of race and prevelges for to some and not others. These prevelges are based race, sexuality, income, etc. People are thought better if they are in a better group which means privelged more. It comes down to a "point" scale, the more the better.

Do you think there is any way of getting rid of racism? Since it is so tide into the way we've ran our country for so long.
Have you ever thought of what someone looks like when talking to them on the phone, wondering race and age?

I thought this chapter was very interesting and a big eye opener. I made sense on how the country was brought up on racism and capitalism intertwined. I couldn't help starting to add up my points and see where i stand in the realm of things. I did feel somewhat at fault though being a white male because in my opinion the author is pointing blame. People can't change history and even though the author was revealing new facts to me, i felt it was in a hostile way at times. But in my opinion I don't see racism ever disapearing unless we change away from capitalsim and that won't be happening anytime soon.