1.Ruth Gilmore says that capitalism will stop being racial capitalism, when all the white people disappear from the story. What’s the connection between “whiteness” and racism, do you think?-Ruth Gilmore states that capitalism will stop being racial capitalism once all white people disappear. What she means by this is that the system of capitalism has been affected so much by race that capitalism treats people different simply due to their race. The connection between whiteness and racism is that typically white people (in this case “whiteness”), have power and privilege in society compared to everyone else in society, so the rules are basically different for them, and give them a unfair advantage.

2.Gilmore makes the point that criminals are actually being created by the criminal justice and prison system (she says “the category of ‘criminal person’ can be perpetuated”). According to Gilmore, how does that happen, how does the prison system create new “criminals“? Do you agree with her view?-Gilmore says this happens because the system punishes people for crimes and immediately labels them as criminals, when in reality the reason many people commit crimes is due to systemic issues in our society like poverty pushes certain ethnic groups to commit crimes because they don’t have the same advantages as white people, and once you go to prison it gives you a criminal record and makes it hard for you to get a job, which pushes you back to crime. In my opinion I completely agree with her view. It is true that many people commit crimes, but not all people that commit crimes due it because they are criminals, a lot of times it comes from being poor and having things like lack of resources which pushes people to break the law.

3.Describe how your understand what Prof. Gilmore – in the last part of her video – calls “liberation struggle”?-Prof. Gilmore at the end of the video talks about “Liberation struggle”.-She talks about liberation struggle as the fight against systems that oppress people due to things like racial capitalism in which oppress people and don’t give them the same chances as their counterparts simple due to their race, and how liberation struggle’s” goal is to make sure everyone gets a equal chance at making something off themselves.