{"id":319841,"date":"2017-08-02T00:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-u-s-capitalism-opened-the-door-to-racial-oppression\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T00:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:42:25","slug":"how-u-s-capitalism-opened-the-door-to-racial-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-u-s-capitalism-opened-the-door-to-racial-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"How U.S. Capitalism Opened the Door to Racial Oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative<\/a>, recently surveyed<\/a> U. S. patterns of violent racial oppression following the end of slavery. Pointing to South Africa, Rwanda, and Germany as countries that, for the sake of healing, confronted their own histories of racial oppression, he called upon America to follow their examples: \u201cWe can\u2019t change our past, but we can acknowledge it and better shape our future.\u201d (1)<\/p>\n

He adds that, \u201cin America, we barely acknowledge the history and legacy of slavery, we have done nothing to recognize the era of lynching, and only in the last few years have a few monuments to the Confederacy been removed in the South.\u201d Stevenson presumably is calling upon Americans both to remember their history of oppressing black people and to fight racism.<\/p>\n

However, many white people who do acknowledge historical truths are silent as to the outcome and impact of racial oppression.\u00a0 They are the intellectual heirs of many southerners without slaves, northerners who tolerated slavery, and later Americans who went along with lynchings, judicial perversions, and Jim Crow. The question is: why have great numbers of whites in the United States never engaged on the side of justice for black people?<\/p>\n

White people aspiring to fix racial injustice in the United States are on a rocky road. \u00a0Woven into the fabric of their society are the mores and practices of capitalism. These bear on human…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Image Editor | CC BY 2.0 Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, recently surveyed U. S. patterns of violent racial oppression following the end of slavery. Pointing to South Africa, Rwanda, and Germany as countries that, for the sake of healing, confronted their own histories of racial oppression, he called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}