- 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?
Based on my understanding and after watching the video, Ruth Gilmore stated that “whiteness” and racism connections revolves around capitalism. The connection between “whiteness” and racism is that majority of the people that are colored they tend to face struggles and the point is that they face stereotypes against people of color and this also has affected society because of how people tend to divide each other and “whiteness” are shape under the idea of them having more power and it reflects back around racism because they don’t have a saying in anything .
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?
According to Ruth Gilmore, how this happens is that the prison systems creates new “criminals” through the discriminations systemic which racial inequalities is being mentioned more, the create new “criminals” under less opportunities for them to upon release. She also states that there has to keep coming for them to agree that they’re “criminals”, their list of behaviors and the relation to this with slavery is general she states, I do agree with her view because it also revolves around struggle and the scale and the sizes, it is specific to where people are.
3) Describe how your understand what Prof. Gilmore – in the last part of her video – calls “liberation struggle”?
My understanding of what Prof. Gilmore in the last part of her video-calls “liberation struggle” is that it reflects back on freedom and what she meant by that is people should create a space where they feel free and create a social change. Creating space where people can come together and fight for liberation struggle and not where they can feel free and not tangled and it’s not just an easy fix it reflects on adoptions and ongoing struggles.
