Does racism still exist? You would think in the 21st century we have evolved as people and racism would not be an issue. Racism comes in different forms and has reshaped itself. Racism has a long history and we see similar trends happening present day. We will discuss how the article White Nationalists Reappear in Charlottesville in Torch- Lit Protest connects to African-American history.
The article, White Nationalists Reappear in Charlottesville in Torch-Lit Protest, is about a group of white nationalists rallying. Richard B. Spencer, a white supremacist, was the guest speaker. The riot took place on October 7, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The rioters were chanting “You will not replace us! and claiming that the “South would rise
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“One who would really understand this racial tension which has broken out into actual conflict in riots as in Harlem, Detroit, and Los Angeles, must look to the roots and not be confused by the branches and the leaves” (Painter 376). We will see how Tensions in society past and present create social racism and social class. “In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematized oppression, can be made to feel surplus, to occupy the place of the dehumanized inferior” (Lorde 114). Lorde defines racism as “a belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and there the right to dominance” (Lorde 115). In connection with the current event article the group of white nationalist believe in white superiority. White superiority is racist. There is no “superior race”, just a social construct built by the white man himself. Frederick Douglas said “The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved” (Marable, Manning, Mullings