As I am using the word racism, it excludes internal reflections and considerations about the other; racism is about power at an institutional level. Institutions perpetuate ideologies and practices that give expression to this exclusionary power. Roots of the sin of racism become the white supremacy of today. White supremacy is defined by Robin Harvey Gorsline as “the operation of social practices by individuals and institutions, including political and economic mechanisms, to achieve and maintain the political, social and economic dominance of white people and the subjugation of peoples of
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