- The connection between “whiteness” and racism is that whites are credited with creating racism. But as Ruth Gilmore said its not racism that the whites created it was capitalism which prospers off of racism.
- The prison system creates new “criminals” by creating and adding new ways to become a criminal. The prison system continues to extend individuals prison sentences and enlarges the list of behaviors that make someone a criminal. I do agree with her view, especially with knowing that a lot of these prison through out America are privately owned. I also agree with her stance that prisons are used to enclosed surplus workers. This takes the burden off the people in charge in regards to what to do with all these excess individuals.
- I understand what Prof Gilmore calls Liberation struggle as the needs and struggles of certain communities that come under attack for expressing who they are. These communities are struggling to be liberated under certain regimes and their way of life is being threatened.
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