Summary

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?
I think what Ruth Gilmore was trying to say on the connection between whiteness and racism is, she mentioned that black is a race and whiteness is racism. what i understood was, there will be no racism if there was no white people. Because, time and time again in history the white people were the ones treating color people and any other ethnicity that is not white wrongly. And as of today white people believe they are superior to any race. But the connection between the 2 is that Whiteness is racism And racism is the white people.

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?
Ruth Gilmore says that the prison system and the criminal Justice system especially in California For years built prisons after prisons when they could have established a University or they could have built a factory but they decided to build prisons. The reason for this it's because rules/ laws has gotten bigger they have gotten deeper. They have gotten to the point where they want to control the people, and the people should have certain type of behaviors. Because they want to control the people and they want to make sure that they're doing there part in a community and doing what the system tells them to and how to behave. And seeing it this way I do agree with her because it's true that we are supposed to be expected to go to work or to go to school and just come back home and have a certain type of behavior in society you can't have a fight or a discussion or an argument in the public view because then people will call the cops and you and you will get arrested. These lawas and society views tells us how to behave and if we don't all abied the rules and the laws then we will go to jail and these present systems will just keep growing and growing. I also would like to mention that the prison systems is a form of slavery which I didn't see it like that at first but it makes sense. Not only prison systems but even out of prison in the world system in a way we are all a slave to something.

3. Describe how your understand what Prof. Gilmore – in the last part of her video – calls “liberation struggle”? Ruth Gilmore described the liberation struggle as a need and the struggle of people where they are and it can have many dimensions. From what I understand when she says this is that people have struggles day today and with that type of struggle it is hard for them to actually catch up to the new world. By many day mentions what I understand of this is that it could be in any part of the world it could mean the US ecobee in Russia could be in China and liberation struggle for everybody is different but at the same time the same. Because the new system and the racial capitalism tries to keep certain people down. And getting out of it really is hard I'm not saying that it's not impossible but it's very hard.