Question

“Race is the child of racism, not the father” , what does this mean?

Answer 1

Answer:

The process of naming 'the people' has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the belief that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes , which are indelible--this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, to believe that they are white.”

The racial distinctions on which racial discrimination and racial supremacy are based are in themselves deeply flawed and almost entirely societal in origin. That seems to me the basic idea.

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