1. I believe that the connection between “whiteness” and racism is that without both of these going hand in hand with one another then there will be no capitalism. It started racial without people realizing that the idea of race meant that black people and that it will continue to stay this way. As long as the people that imagined what they are not raised to be which is white people. But in reality this will never happen since white people will always be at the top of the racial capitalism. 
2. Gilmore states that the way that this first started was due to surplus labor. California in the early 1980’s is that they being to build prison after prison after prison. They could’ve built a university, factors, the list is long. Prison help to push surplus to be able to gain what they want. They need to have a steady stream of criminals to keep coming. In order to do this the sentences need to be longer, the type of crimes that they commit needs to be hasher. It even comes down to the people that find themselves being caught up in the system and try to get out. They find themselves going back home and reenter society, to find themselves back in the same things that got them caught up. I agree with her views on this because prison systems are meant to keep those that have been in the system time in time again to repeat the cycle over and over again, Most career criminals never tend to have a chance to fix and change their ways due to their “re entry” back into society. Something that does not help them if they’re being placed back into the same community and around the same people that has cause them to “relapsed” 
3.  Professor Gilmore describes “liberation struggle” is placed- based deliberation struggle the scale might differ widely and the size might differ widely but it is all placed based. It is specific to the needs and the struggles of people where they’re and that where it has many dimensions. What she means by this is that this scale is being placed and these “prisons” are being placed in places that often show where there is a struggle within the community. So in California this is the cause of why they have continued to build so many prisons year after year for the past 23 years. 

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1. I think the connection between “whiteness” and racism is that white people and black people are obviously not equal. Everyone knows that white people have more privilege than black, and this leads to what Gilmore was pointing out, Gilmore is arguing that to protect the idea of equality, white people need to treat black people like they should be treated. So, in order for racial capitalism to stop, white people should treat black people like they have rights like them. 

2. Gilmore points out that criminals are really being formed by the criminal justice and prison systems. Gilmore states “the category of ‘criminal person’ can be perpetuated.” I believe that the prison system creates new criminals by being biased and choosing based on the “crimes” people do such as drugs for example which is a minor crime in my opinion. Also, the criminal system is creating new criminals based on racial bias and how people live. In order for criminals to be bailed out of jail, they must pay a large amount of money which requires tax. The tax step will then be one of the prison system creation to create new criminals where they will have to pay in order to be bailed out of jail. 

3. In the last part of Prof. In Gilmore’s video, I understand that the liberation struggle is mentioned and explained when Prof. Gilmore stated that “we have to be attentive to the many different kinds of factors institutions, places, and processes through which people come to consciousness through fermenting liberation struggle.” By what I believe Prof. Gilmore was arguing about, I’m assuming that she is specifying that when there is a different kinds of places in the world, especially in Africa, people come to consciousness through picking freedom struggle. 

1. 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.
2. 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. 
3. 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.

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? 

First Ruth Gilmore needs to take a step back and discover that saying all white people need to disappear even if she just means the ones that are capitalist is just about as racist as she claims they are, and also ALL white people is a very bold statement. But moving on, Whiteness and racism stem from the fact that white people held black slaves for quite some time, politicians, land owners, and lots of white people did so, and even when slavery was removed the white people in power made everything harder for all minorities, especially black peole. So the connections stem from there for sure. 

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 to an extent, when you are there the environment is negative, you got yourself there, and chances of you coming back are likely. Sadly. The prison system is indeed very toxic, as it’s been shown throughout time, and even ex-prisoners have made it out. One I follow on social media tells stories all the time and tries to inspire youth not to make the same mistakes. Now as for how you get in prison, to begin with, there is definitely their share of wrongful convictions and unfair trials. But if you get in there on your own criminal activities that’s your fault, you can only blame yourself that’s how you improve upon yourself. As for being created in prison, that would be slightly incorrect because they were criminals when they got there( in most cases). 

3. Describe how your understand what Prof. Gilmore – in the last part of her video – calls “liberation struggle”? 

Liberation struggle in my understanding is the struggle it takes to liberate the people into knowing that it’s okay to fight back against wrongs done by higher-ups like government officials even people who just think they are above you for some reason. You don’t have to sit there and take it, you have rights. In this case, she is definitely talking about the African American struggle for liberation. 

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?

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”?