Dr. Layla Abdel-Rahim joins me once more and brings her unique, anti-civilization perspective and analysis to the Treyvon Martin and Anna Brown tragedies. She gets to what’s at the root of the persistent racism, prejudice, and white supremacy that unfortunately still reign over our society.
Excerpts from the audio:
"The division of class, especially in north America where race as a class has been historically exploited, makes it so that even members of the same class, but of white race, will ultimately (having that white privilege - which people still refuse to acknowledge), to preserve their own white privilege (even though they are the lowest in the category of the "whites"), will also have to participate in the oppression of the "lower" resources...
The whole evolutionary idea of the food chain actually locks us in these categories even deeper. That is why I cannot imagine that anytime soon we will be ridding ourselves of these classes and racism, species-ism, sexism, and all these aggressions...the whole concept underlying our narrative, how we perceive ourselves, is that all of us are taught to perceive ourselves in a certain place in that food chain - a hierarchical food chain. And today, since this narrative, this scientific narrative, was written fairly recently by white people, it places a white man at the top of this food chain, then a white woman, then so on and so forth...
One way that civilization divides and rules, or divides and conquers, is [by] institutionalizing one class of ownership - the dominant class - and everyone else will be consumed, ultimately consumed, whether in terms of resources, work resources, or in terms of pleasure...part of the gender oppression is based on the production and reproduction of human resources, as well as the obtainment of pleasure, and this pleasure will also be characterized in a specific way. So all of these feelings and emotions and relationships with be read from that stance, where it is necessary for the survival of the oppressor to not feel what his victim feels..."
