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A 3 page paper which examines systemic racism as presented by Joe R. Feagin in Racist America. No additional sources cited.
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author delves into the history of racism and discusses present conditions, illustrating how there is still racism, albeit what he terms systemic racism. The following paper examines Feagins work as
it relates to systemic racism. Systemic Racism As can be well assumed, and acknowledged, racism is something that is very intricate and complex, while also incredibly simple in
its foundation. Racism is, in other words a very simple reality but it has become a very complex social condition that involves many social entities. While the simplicity of racism
is that it is merely a believe about how people of another race are less than ones own, it develops and is hidden and utilized in many intricate ways. This
is evident in the history of the United States. For example, Feagin (2000) notes that while many people believe that the Constitution was about freedom it was really about people,
powerful men, who wanted to protect the rights, the property and economic rights, of people who had money and possessed land. It was not about equality because only white men
were considered relevant social entities. It may have been about equality among white men with money and land, but aside from that the primary focus was on creating a strong
foundation for those white men with power and money. Feagin (2000) states, "This was not just a political gathering with the purpose of creating a major new bourgeois-democratic government; it
was also a meeting to protect the racial and economic interests of men with substantial property and wealth in the colonies" (10-11). In this one could claim that the foundations
of racism were in place against anyone who was not white with property and the African American slave was surely such a person. They were seen as less than human,
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