Racism also is not as simple as multiple White people calling you a racial slur or saying they don’t like “the Blacks” – a term I frequently hear Black conservative, Uncle Jesse Lee use.
Portraying Oppression and Racism
Racism is also watching how your race is portrayed in the media. The media constantly portrays Black men as criminals and Black women as loud, ghetto, and ratchet. This is done through news media and movie portrayals. Hollywood actors constantly complain about getting offered degrading roles and denied positive roles. News media over-reports and emphasizes Black crime, and under-reports White crimes, even though the rates are pretty close. The racist media wants to negatively define Black people to the world and other ethnic groups, and to themselves, to keep the collective Black self-esteem down.
Meanwhile, Whites, and other groups get relative positive portrayals. There’s always the movie of Blacks having problems and a White savior comes to save the day. That’s why many Blacks consciously and unconsciously look at White people as more credible authority figures and have a deep distrust for their own kind. News, movies, and TV shows aren’t designed solely to inform and entertain. They’re also designed to brainwash. In this case, for Blacks to remain deferential and even obsequious to Whites, and for Whites to have a boss mentality. This sounds like racial oppression to me, or systematic racism if that’s the term you prefer.
There have also been plenty of stories of rappers wanting to rap about positive subjects, but the White record exec insisting on them rapping about guns, drugs, and hos. The White exec’s reasoning is that they believe it sells and that’s what people want to hear. More than likely, the reason is because they want youthful rappers to sell poison and destructive messages to impressionable youth.
Nonetheless, that Black rapper may be successful individually, and can take care of his family. So Uncle Jesse could argue that he’s not oppressed because of all the nice material possessions the selected Black rapper individuals have – even though they were required by their corporate White masters to sell destruction to mislead other Black youth. The famous Black actors who are forced to play negative Black roles in exchange for millions live in expensive mansions, drive nice cars, and can travel anywhere they want with their large bank account. So buck dancing Jesse will say that the Black individual actor is not oppressed – therefore Blacks as a whole are not oppressed – even though we see a clear assault on our image.
Racial Oppression in Education
Racial oppression is also in the education system. They teach the history of Blacks as slaves and the almighty White oppressor as “the White man.” It gives Blacks a sense of pride in seeing our ancestors strength in enduring torture. But it also can give Blacks an unconscious sense of deference to Whites while constantly visualizing fighting the almighty “White man” oppressor.
What if the education system taught that Blacks were the original man on earth and that they started and ran several prosperous dynasties starting in Africa and eventually across the world long before an Asian and Caucasian was even thought of? What if schools taught that Africans civilized Europeans twice and brought them out of the Dark Ages? What if the school system taught that Africans/Blacks taught the world science, mathematics, spirituality, and writing? After all, all of this is true. If this was taught in school, Blacks would not feel unconscious deference to Whites as leaders and expert authorities on all things.
The fact that the schools or mainstream media documentaries teach the opposite of these documented truths – that White slave masters were the ones who civilized so-called primitive Africans from the wild jungles – is what? You guessed it: oppression. That’s not my choice of a word. I rather say an unjust exercise of authority. That sounds less whiny and victim-minded, but it’s essentially the same got-damn thing.
