- 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?
The connection between whiteness and racism is racism is being judged based on your race . while on the other hand whiteness is a way to describe a race one will say. The white majority is those who had the most power where the darker your skin color was the less power or say you would have.
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?
I agree with what Gilmore is saying. How jails are created and maintained on the inside gives an individual into a flight or fight state of mind. Being that they are in jail they cannot take “Flight” into consideration leaves them with no other choice but to fight their way through their jail time.
3. Describe how your understand what Prof. Gilmore – in the last part of her video – calls “liberation struggle”?
Liberation struggle is the needs of people. Some people who are struggling together may come together and try to find a better outcome. Struggling together is better than struggling alone.
