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A 3 page essay that reports on Gayrund Wilmore's "Struggling Against Racism with Realism and Hope." Wilmore presents his vision of the parameters of this struggle, the future of racism in American and the Christian duty to continue to racial inequality and injustice. In so doing he presents a realistic assessment of the continuing problem of racism and how that problem is likely to evolve in the twenty-first century. No bibliography is provided.
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the Christian duty to continue to racial inequality and injustice. In so doing he presents a realistic assessment of the continuing problem of racism and how that problem is likely
to evolve in the twenty-first century. First of all, Wilmore begins his remarks by defining "racism," as: the often unconscious and unacknowledged assumption about the innate superiority of
White over Black that has become institutionalized in a complex web of privileges and proscriptions that has kept us separate and unequal in this country for almost four hundred years
(243). He then refers briefly to the logistics of racism, that is, how anyone can progress in the US, as long as they are white, citing specifically the
example of new immigrants to the country being able to quickly progress up the socio-economic ladder due to the privileges afforded by white skin. Wilmore then proceeds to discuss the
future of racism, which naturally entails demographics. Wilmore predicts that the White race will not lose its hold on the society in the near future because many of the influx
of Hispanic immigrants "will identify themselves as White Hispanics" (244). Wilmore predicts that by 2010, the Hispanic population of the US will have almost overtaken African Americans as the largest
minority group(244). Wilmore than describes a process of social evolution wherein various immigrant groups integrate themselves into the white mainstream, rather than remain identified with "people of color" (245).
In other words, he does not see Asians or Hispanics as possible candidates for joining forces to with African Americans to right racial injustice. He feels that they will disengage
"themselves from their ancestral culture" and "the struggle for liberation of oppressed Americans of color and lower economic status" by "closing their eyes to the racism and White-skin privilege that
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