The connection between “whiteness” and racism is that people thought being white was superior to being black and being black was looked upon as an object instead of a person and totally unequal so without the white race, there would be no racism.
The prison system makes new criminals through mass incarceration. Mass imprisonment is a system of police, legal action, detention, debt collection, and social control that has its origins in feeding off of and perpetuating racial and economic injustice. This network is sometimes referred to as the criminal justice system, the penal state, or the carceral state. Many people are being put into jail and their records show that they are criminals.
Liberation struggle is often pursuing independence based on a nationalist identity and an anti-imperialist viewpoint, a liberation movement is an organization or political movement that leads a revolt, or a non-violent social movement, against a colonial power or a national government.