This race system’s mission is to keep people in their place and maintain the status quo. The powerful keep their status and the powerless remain subordinate and subjugated. When I was in Korea, my family didn’t view me as yellow. Asians don’t view themselves as yellow, just as Africans do not view themselves as Black. It is only when Africans come to the United States that they come to see themselves as Black. This is the racialization process, which labels us according to our skin color. Along with the division of people according to skin color is the understanding of a hierarchy of color,
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