Fabrication of race

Racism as I believe is a struggle for power and domination. It is one race’s attempt to degrade the other, in order to achieve a higher status. All these years the whites have not only degraded but mistreated the blacks in order to show them as an inferior race. It also becomes a way to show their insecurity. Persecutions have been carried out; millions have been tortured and killed under the banner and struggle for race domination. This imbalance between the whites and the non-whites specially let to major gaps between people. Richmond here tries to show us the affects in South Africa and what I felt from this article was that the whites due to their insecurities towards the blacks caused mass displacements and killings. Entire races have been swept away from the face of this world the best example being the Latin Americans.

In Fabrication of Race the author tries to convey and question as to what this “race” theory actually is. This is a very complicated subject. He tries to bring up the question as to what would determine ones race and how do u know as to what race one belongs to? The same is what I feel of this mixture of views and of the difference of this man-made ideology. Even though nearly all religions in this world say that all humans are same but the greatest separation also becomes religion itself. But still white Christians degrade black ones. They try to show their superiority but what proves that they are superior. 

I believe that it was the colonial era that had the greatest impact in determining the differences between races. I feel and as the article “black skin white mask” says that it is our weakness that allowed the whites culture become superior to ours, it is ourselves who has allowed them to suppress us, it is our own fault our own weaknesses and differences that blinded us to fight against each other and gave them the path to domination. It is us Asians that are so enslaved to their culture and their methods, that we gave them an advantage to dominate us. The best example is of the sub-continent, a land that had lived in an invisible bond of harmony and brotherhood for decades but after the entrance of the British and our own cultural and ethnic differences we became an easy meat to the ever growing power of the English.

Even though we do have our own identity but our wish to be someone else is where we deny the strength that we could endow and leave a tree with weak roots for the power hungry to prey on.