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Talking Race and Racism
If race is a system of power designed to benefit some at the expense of others, as Ijeomo Oluo (n.d.) states in her speech at Google, maybe we shouldnt be talking about race at all? Why talk about a subject that is only there in order to exalt some people and marginalize and oppress others? If that is how race is going to be used, why not just refuse to talk about race? Then that power play is no longer on the table: it is no longer an option. If one refuses to talk about race, to acknowledge racethat construct of race that is used to empower some at the expense of others now is without air and becomes lifeless and incapable of doing what those in power want it to do. Race plays right into the idea of labeling theory, after all, which is exactly what Oluo (n.d.) is talking about: powerful people want to use labels to maintain their own power while denying others who have the wrong label. It is what Margaret Sanger wanted to do during the American Eugenics program, when she viewed minorities as undesirables who should be prevented from breedingan idea that then was picked up in Planned Parenthood. Yet all this organization does is talk about raceand there it is: an organization that has its roots in a racist ideology of a powerful white woman uses race as a system of powerwhile saying it is helping the marginalized and oppressed even as it is working to keep them marginalized and oppressed.
For that reason, I find the whole topic of race to be disgusting. I do not even want to hear about it. I dont want people talking about it. Talking about race is like playing right into their trap, isnt it? I do not agree with Hooks (n.d.) that these conversations are necessary for building community. On the contrary, on see them as simply perpetuating the system of conflict. We need something to unite usnot divide us. We need a spiritual unification, in my opinionsomething that transcends our petty squabbling natures.
References
Bell Hooks- Talking Race and Racism -PDF
So You Want to Talk About Race?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnybJZRWipg
How to Have a Voice and Lean Into Conversations about Race
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