RACISM AND ITS HARMFUL EFFECTS AND WHAT WE MEAN ABOUT THAT

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Races are large groupings of persons, distinguished by physical features such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features. Some people have dark skin and woolly hair, others light skin and straight hair. These so-called racial differences are captured in what adherents of the popular account might regard as more scientifically precise form, in a UNESCO statement from 1953 describing the three "major racial groups" and attempting to summarize what was known about race at the "Race": What We Mean and What We Think We Mean 99 time: " 'Asians' tend to have a fold of skin (the ' epicanthic' fold) overhanging the eye opening that the other groups don't have; 'blacks' have much darker brown skin and tightly curled hair; whites have lighter skin, narrower noses, and more bodily hair than the other two groups."l Races are just part of what the world consists of, like stars, trees, and animals.

A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR RACISM DESCRIBES IT ON THREE LEVELS: 

  • Structural racism (also called institutional) is the differential access to goods, services, and opportunities based on race. It manifests as inherited disadvantage when discriminatory policies become integrated into organizations. 
  • Personally mediated racism occurs when prejudice results in discrimination. Racist behaviors can be intentional, unintentional, acts of commission, and/or acts of omission. 
  • Internalized racism is acceptance by members of stigmatized races of Negative messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth.


THE MORAL DANGERS OF RACIAL THINKING:

Upon reflection, that thinking of persons in racial terms does indeed generally carry morally problematic implications, and not only when that thinking is racist.

  • Moral Distance 

Racial thinking implies a moral distance among those of different races-an intensified consciousness of a "we" of one race counterpoised to a "they" of another. This distance is bound up with the idea of deep, inherent, and ineradicable differences among races.

  • False Commonality 

Unfortunate aspect of race thinking is an imposition of false commonality on all those classified as members of the same race. Just as such thinking inhibits persons of different races from seeing commonalities, so it encourages people of a given race to expect commonalities with members of their own race when none may exist, and to overlook or minimize differences that do exist.

  • Inescapable Racial Fate 

Because race implies the possession of immutable characteristics, it suggests an inescapable "racial fate." If, by virtue of their race, blacks are lazy, or white’s racist, or Asians passive, their laziness, racism, or passivity is part of their very nature.

  • Dominance and Hierarchy 

A fourth morally deleterious consequence of race is that racial categories tend to evoke associations of superiority and inferiority of value. The claiming of a "white" identity, for example, tends to imply the acknowledgment of the appropriateness of, or the attempt to stake a claim to, the privileges and higher status historically associated with ''whiteness, '' even though those claiming it.



Racism is a pervasive, preventable problem that exacts a significant toll on the self-concepts, health and well-being. A racist isn’t born; they're made from the world around them. We must kill racism before it kills us.

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