The Colorbind Society 0
At the Hartford Courant, sociology professor Johnny E. Williams reminds us that “race” is a social construct fiction created to legitimize white dominance. Specifically, it was formed in the English colonies in the colonial period so as to justify chattel slavery and theft of labor.
Here’s a bit from his article:
But there is no “white race.”
Whiteness is a shared conglomeration of fabricated meanings and ideas about biologically insignificant human differences. Whiteness only exists in relation or opposition to blackness and other fictitious racial categories created by whiteness adherents for the purpose of cementing a higher status and material advantage over other people that are excluded from being white.
Aside:
Honest to Pete, if my primary source of pride were the color of my skin, as seems to be the case with many who share my skin color, I would be a poor man indeed
