Friday, March 29, 2024

The Fallacy of NOT Seeing Race – WATCH

*Imagine a little girl from a brown family with an Arabic name. Imagine that this girl grew up in a place like Lynchburg, Virginia.

This girl would always look forward to the Black history month and will revel at every opportunity to catch the local black theatre ensemble.

Such is the story of Dr. Khalilah L. Brown – who has written quite a lot about public policies, political psychology, and American politics.

A Profound Appreciation for Black Heroes

As Dr. Brown grew up, she began appreciating geniuses such as August Wilson, Lorraine Hansbury, and George C. Wolfe. This is how she began learning the complexities with which African Americans were always struggling with. They were still surviving in places which were branded for Black folks.

When You Recognize Your History

Dr. Brown was inspired by poems like that of Maya Angelou, where she says, ““lift up your faces, you have a piercing need. For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

Commenting on the powerful words of this poem, Dr. Brown says that if people face this history, there will be a series of reckoning from the public. People will realize the tragedies in the life of Ota Benga – the man who got kidnapped from Congo and was put out as an item for display in zoos all over the United States.

Wasn’t this the utter denial of humanity for a man? Wasn’t this the deliberate exploitation of a human being? All of these questions lead to another question – can this type of violence occur again? To this rhetoric, Dr Brown says, “The past is prologue.”

The Fallacy

The fallacy in building a society that is post-racial is that the environment shouldn’t prefer whiteness as the default identity. They should see and recognize all races and stand up against everything that challenges these values.

Refusing to address racial realities will never make racism go away. The black community will keep empowering themselves with the fuel of discrimination in their histories. Seeing and recognizing race will provide better access to democracy and freedom in the United States.

The real question is – when will America see and recognize our race?

 

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