- 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?
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?
3. Describe how your understand what Prof. Gilmore – in the last part of her video – calls “liberation struggle”?
1. whiteness is white people and racism is black people
2.get where you’re not kidding,” she said. “Yet, what about this: Rather than finding out if anybody ought to be secured or go free, for what reason don’t we think about why we take care of issues by rehashing the sort of conduct that got us the issue the primary spot?” She was asking them to consider for what good reason, as a general public, we would decide to display brutality and retribution. and yes i agree with her views
3 its a form of solidarity and coming to ones consciousness.