Cracker Barrel’s CEO faces an uphill battle to revive the restaurant chain after a blunt admission sent stock prices plummeting 20 per cent.
Cracker Barrel’s CEO faces an uphill battle to revive the restaurant chain after a blunt admission sent stock prices plummeting 20 per cent.
Thank you for the insight, and I suppose I may have spoken carelessly.
And yeah as a white American I’ve absolutely noticed a tendency to view racism as you describe and I really appreciate your examples and hope to remember them next time I’m in that argument
But we’re not saying racial prejudice is a good thing just because it doesn’t fit the academic definition of racism, right? Like, if a white child grows up in a predominantly black area and is picked on for being different, it’s still terrible if they grow up loathing black people. Even though it’s not an example of systemic or
instructionalinstitutional racism and just plain old boring racial prejudice.Edit: autocorrect
But prejudice has always been bad. It’s just that racism, especially the racism that resulted from centuries of chattel slavery, is worse. It’s a lot worse. It’s something that can be studied through multiple lenses/fields, politics (colonization, authoritarianism), psychology (identity formation, PTSD), law (red-lining, jim crow, mass incarceration) economics (no business loans from banks, racist hiring practices), philosophy (justice, freedom, epistemology), sociology, anthropology, etc.
People don’t really fear being called a slur on the street as much as they fear being seen as less than human by our society and shared institutions.