The quote that I saw from my friends' email has been in my head all week.
“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.” -Malcolm X
What has really changed since the Civil Rights Movement? Do we still see the progress? Yet, what is the "progress"?.
Black People still have half of what is good in America; double of what is bad. Forty-eight years after the Civil Right Act passed, we still see the segregation, institutional oppression, and profoundly unequal opportunity for people of color. Housing discrimination, low retention and recruitment in higher education, and neighborhood that has higher percentage of people of color most likely have economically disadvantaged is all the facts the situation only got worse and nothing has improved.
Denial of the past destroyed their grasp of reality, and white people’s moral sense. This myth made race not just about how we look, but how people assign meaning of how we look. It is constructed by society for political and exploitation goals. The way we look created privilege for certain races and made inferior to certain people. If white people admit that they enslaved other men, rather than denying their immoral act, and creating race and privilege, the race problem would not exist until today. people has accept that they all benefited and responsible for this invented reality. They have to affirm they have privilege to be white in this society because this invented reality.
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