All lives matter. Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. We need to think about racial exclusion on the back of slavery, colonialism, and now the late capitalist mode of production. Systemic racism exists and this is institutionalized, social and economic. Race is a social construct as there is more genetic differentiation between individuals within race than across it, yet race is still important in the realm of identity.
Under-privilege is both racial, but yet individual, and is across all realms of social categorisations of race and ethnicity. There are many white peoples who are poor, struggling and under-privileged.
We need to think about a base-line level of legitimate privilege being the individual’s freehold ownership of a block of land and house residing on that land. This should be a political right. This will allow people to flourish, and self-actualise and will help fulfill the lower levels of Maslo’s hierarchy of needs, (needed for self-actualisation). This is to be inclusive of the need for housing, food, and amenities needed to reproduce humane levels of basic ‘status’ needs in the advanced technological age.
What we often forget or neglect is the important and integral knowledges of all the races and ethnicities. All races and ethnicities are equal and should be valued for the integral knowledge-systems and roots in the soil which they all have. All contribute to humanity equally and we should avoid ethnocentrism.
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