Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism

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Term Paper Title	Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism
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Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism

Racism: Issue In Institutional Racism

     The history of the United States is one of duality.  In the words of the
Declaration of Independence, our nation was founded on the principles of
equality in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, long before the
founders of the newly declared state met in Philadelphia to espouse the virtues
of self-determination and freedom that would dubiously provide a basis for a
secessionary war, those same virtues were trampled upon and swept away with
little regard.  Beneath the shining beacon of freedom that signaled the
formation of the United States of America was a shadow of deception and
duplicity that was essential in creating the state. The HSS 280 class lexicon
defines duality as “a social system that results from a worldview which accepts
inherent contradictions as reasonable because this is to the believer's benefit.”
The early years of what would become the United States was characterized by  a
system of duality that subjugated and exterminated peoples for the benefit of
the oppressors. This pattern of duality, interwoven into our culture, has
created an dangerously racialized society.  From the first moment a colonist
landed on these shores, truths that were “self-evident” were contingent on
subjective “interpretation.”  This discretionary application of rights and
freedoms is the foundation upon which our racially stratified system operates on.

     English colonists, Africans, and Native Americans comprised the early
clash of three peoples. Essentially economic interests, and namely capitalism,
provided the impetus for the relationships that developed between the English
colonists, the Africans, and the Native Americans. The colonialization of North
American by the British was essentially an economic crusade.  The emergence of
capitalism and the rise of trade throughout the 16th century provided the
British with a blueprint to expand its economic and political sphere.  The
Americas provided the British with extensive natural resources, resources that
the agrarian-unfriendly British isles could not supply for its growing empire.
     When Britons arrived in North America, the indigenous population posed
an economic dilemma to the colonists.  The Native Americans were settled on the
land that the British colonists needed to expand their economic capacity.  To
provide a justificatory framework for the expulsion of Native Americans off
their land, the English colonists crea...

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