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Racism


~ RACISM  or RACIALISM
          start see> RACE
  id+ | ANTI HUMANISM |
  note TRACE TRACING or in
  sp   TRAZA TRAZAR    sug> NOTION
        RAZA = RACE    sug> NATION
  also MISCEGENATION   sug> NATIONALISM
  note RACISM IS A SUBJECT for CONTENTIOUS DEBATE
       sug> APARTHEID
  note RACISM denotes a VEHICLE FOR PREJUDICE IN
       SOCIAL RELIGIOUS or POLITICAL MATTERS and
       SERVES AS A CONVENIENT POLITICAL "LABEL"
       WHICH CAN BE APPLIED BROADLY AND
       INDISCRIMINATELY TO ENTIRE POPULATIONS WITH
       DISREGARD FOR INDIVIDUAL MERITS
  sug> INDIVIDUALISM
  note RACISM IS ONE POLITICAL METHOD USED TO
       PROMOTE COHESION OF POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
  note RACE IS A LABEL TO SUMMARIZE A DOGMATIC
       NEED TO INSTITUTE ARBITRARY CRITERIA
       BASED ON LINEAGE or
       ETHNIC  CULTURAL or OTHER TRAITS or TRACES
       IMPOSED ON OTHER PEOPLE       sug> GENTILE
  note RACISM SERVES TO              sug> JEW
       ISOLATE
       SEGREGATE
       DISCRIMINATE
       DOMINATE
  sug> REPRESSION  GENOCIDE  HOLOCAUST  CHAUVINISM
  note USA IMMIGRATION QUOTAS BASED ON
       CULTURAL
       ETHNIC
       RACIAL CRITERIA
  note RACISM in MODERN PRACTICE as in
      " RACIAL HYGIENE "   its roots stem from
       SOCIAL DARWINISM
  note admixture of RACE and CULTURE in
       POLITICAL EXTERMINATION POLICIES as in
  ROME    vs CARTHAGE and its DECIMATION
  ROME    vs JEWS and their DIASPORA
  ENGLAND vs FRENCH CANADIANS who were
             "EXPELLED" or DEPORTED           sug> ACADIAN CAJUN
  USA     vs INDIAN and their "EXPULSION" by
             General JACKSON [#]              sug> MARCH OF TEARS
  USSR    vs UKRAINIANS and TATARS
             DEPORTED TO SIBERIA              sug> GULAG
  note after 80 years of COMMUNIST CLAIMS     see> USSR
       THAT RACISM WAS "LIQUIDATED"
  RACIST ATTITUDES SURVIVE AND                sug> IMPERIALISM
  THRIVE IN RUSSIA                            sug> NATIONALISM
  the same failure is obvious in the former   sug> FAIL
  YUGOSLAVIA WHERE SERBS CROATS CATHOLICS     sug> FALL
  ORTHODOX AND MUSLIMS MURDER EACH OTHER      sug> HOMICIDE
  other "racial" divisions survive as in      sug> COMPORT
  ENGLISH vs "FRENCH" CANADA                  sug> DEPORT
  CATHOLIC vs PROTESTANT IRELAND  etc         sug> LAG LAGER
  in short RACISM THRIVES AS EVER             sug> FLOURISH
  note STALINIST " PURGED " ENTIRE            sug> PURE PURGATORY
  POPULATIONS AND CULTURES                    sug> GENOCIDE
  HITLER PURSUED " RACIAL HYGIENE "           see> HOLOCAUST
  COMMUNISTS REGIMES CONTINUE TO              sug> DOGMA
  TARGET ENEMY " GROUPS" FOR ELIMINATION      see> KULAK
  CAMBODIA  per COMMUNIST KHMER ROUGE         sug> POGROM
  CHINA         TIBET                         sug> BABYJ YAR
  ETHIOPIA      MILITARY USE OF FAMINE TO     sug> WANT
                DESTROY CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY
  STARVATION IS A POPULAR MODERN WEAPON AGAINST
  CIVILIAN POPULATIONS as done by STALIN WHO
  CONTRIVED A FAMINE IN UKRAINE THAT KILLED
  20 MILLION PEOPLE AND GAVE RISE TO A NEW WORD
  ukr HOLODOMOR =   HOLOCAUST BY FAMINE
      HOLOD         HUNGER
            MOR     DEATH
            MORYTY  TORTURE
  see>  MAR MORTAL MORAL from lat MORTIS
  ply> | RACISM HAS A MORTAL MORALITY |
  hx> PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN
      ESTABLISHED A "COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS"
  TO PROPOSE TO OUTLAW LYNCHING             see> LYNCH
  TO REPEAL THE POLL TAX                    see> BALLOT BALLISTIC
  TO END RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SCHOOLS   sug> CRIME  DIS CRIME
  NONE OF THE ABOVE PASSED CONGRESS         sug> CRISIS
  in 1954 PRESIDENT DWIGHT D EISENHOWER OPPOSED AND REFUSED
      TO ENFORCE A SUPREME COURT DECISION AGAINST
  RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS NOTED IN
  BROWN vs. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ARKANSAS
  in 1962 PRESIDENT JF KENNEDY [#]
  SUPPORTED DESEGREGATION
  FOLLOWED BY PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON
  CIVIL RIGHTS AND VOTING RIGHTS ACTS WERE PASSED
  lit+ Harry S ASHMORE [#] comments on the above and won
       a PULITZER Prize as the Editor of the Arkansas Gazette
  consider his "Civil Rights and Wrongs" Pantheon NY 1994
  hx> recently a SUPREME COURT RULING ON
      HOLDER v HALL led JUSTICE Clarence THOMAS [#]
  to note how " VOTING RIGHTS ACT "  HELPED TO
  INCREASE BLACK VOTES BUT also LED TO
  IDEAS OF "DIRECT PROPORTIONALITY" BASED ON RACE
  AN ENTERPRISE TO DIVIDE THE COUNTRY INTO
  ELECTORAL DISTRICTS ACCORDING TO RACE   sug> GERRYMANDER below
  BLACK POLITICIANS PREFER NOW
  "POLITICAL APARTHEID" TO INTEGRATION
  SUCH SYSTEM FAVORS THE FORTUNES OF                  sug> POLARIZE
  THE EXTREMES OF EITHER RACIAL TYPE                  sug> RADICAL
  AT THE EXPENSE OF MODERATE CANDIDATES OF EITHER RACE
  LIBERAL SUPREME COURT JUDGES Felix FRANKFURTER [#] and
  William O DOUGLAS [#] ALSO OPPOSED " RACISM IN REVERSE "
  Justice THOMAS [#] noted THAT SUCH A SYSTEM
  "CAN ONLY SERVE TO DEEPEN RACIAL DIVISIONS ..." BECAUSE
  UNDER SUCH A SYSTEM VOTERS AND CANDIDATES
  DO NOT NEED BRIDGES BETWEEN RACIAL GROUPS
  note GERRYMANDER stems from Eldridge GERRY [#]
  OF MASSACHUSETTS CREATED NEW ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
  TO FAVOR HIS POLITICAL AMBITIONS BY DRAWING
  BIZARRELY SHAPED ARBITRARY ELECTORAL DISTRICTS
  THAT REMINDED THE PAINTER Gilbert STUART [#]
  OF A SALAMANDER
  cont> in addenda see> ~& RACE

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