Kim Kardashian spoke about how welcoming daughter North with West last June is like getting "to see the world for the first time again, but through someone else's eyes." "It's amazing how one little person and the love I have for her has brought new meaning to every moment. What once seemed so important, now feels insignificant," she writes. "To be honest, before I had North, I never really gave racism or discrimination a lot of thought. It is obviously a topic that Kanye is passionate about, but I guess it was easier for me to believe that it was someone else's battle."
But with the arrival of her daughter, Kardashian says she's more aware "of a side of life that isn't always so pretty."
"I feel a responsibility as a mother, a public figure, a human being, to do what I can to make sure that not only my child, but all children, don't have to grow up in a world where they are judged by the color of their skin, or their gender, or their sexual orientation," Kardashian concluded. "I want my daughter growing up in a world where love for one another is the most important thing."
Racism is the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others.
It is a product of capitalism. It grew out of early capitalism’s use of slaves for the plantations of the New World, it was consolidated in order to justify western and white domination of the rest of the world and it flourishes today as a means of dividing the working class between white and black, or native and immigrants or asylum seekers. Racism is a particular form of oppression: discrimination against people on the grounds that some inherited characteristic, for example, skin color, makes them inferior to their oppressors.
However, historical references indicate that class society before capitalism was able, on the whole, to do without this particular form of oppression. Bad as the society of classical Greece and Rome were it is historically reasonably well documented that the ancient Greeks and Romans knew nothing about race. Slaves were both black and white and in fact the majority of slaves were white. The first clear evidence of racism occurred at the end of the 16th century with the start of the slave trade from Africa to Britain and to America.
Fight against racism and xenophobia
In Europe the key measure in the fight against racism was the resolution adopted by the Council and the representatives of the Member States in July 1996, declaring 1997 to be the "European Year against Racism".
The Amsterdam Treaty (1999) provided the first legal basis for combating all forms of discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, as well as for the fight against racism and xenophobia in the fields of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
Mostly everybody has said at least one thing they regret. Most of the time, however, that does not cost the person anything more than some potential embarrassment, or a very delicate situation. As things go higher and more public however, there is an increased likelihood of a fall, especially when the stupid thing you say is undeniably racist or bigoted. Here are some people who learned that particular lesson the hard way.
- Donald Sterling
- Jesse Jackson
- john Rocker
- Paula Deen
- Jimmy ''the Greek''
- Al Campanis
- Dan Imus. Etc.
Racism is a product of man's sinful nature, and those that engage in it are ignorant and doomed for destruction.
I pray that Kim's marriage to Kanye would be blissful and further herald the fall of racism.
Cheers! To love.
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