I am deeply concerned by what is happening in Sudan in the recent years. One of the issues that deepened this concern was the gradual, ubiquitous increase of the daily encountered feeling of racial discrimination between Sudanese people.
Racism in Merriam-Webster dictionary is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. And if we note that one definition of race in the same dictionary: a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock, then the following “sensitive “ question can be formulated:
Is what is going in Sudan is Racism?
The question is sensitive from the prospect of the alleged superior race or tribes, not from the view of those who have been oppressed and enslaved in both the ancient and recent history.
Sensitive as it touch again one of the taboo subjects in the northern Sudan culture which used to be dealt with in the locked rooms and I do think its time to be discussed in the open air with loud voice in the hope that the illusions and mal conceived ideas that what is going on is not racism will vanish.
It might be also sensitive because of the strong link between the denied histories of salivary in Sudan and what is going today.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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Racism as defined by yourselves is true. But the question that needs to be answered is whether racism is an inherent part of human nature and whether or not it is inherited. Yes, like other diseases, racism is passed on from parents to children, and aparently it has been a "successful" trait to have continued for such a long period, and must provide an advantage for the group. You cannot just press backspace and delete racism from the line. Slavery has been abolished on half a decade or so ago; (although slavery per se isn't racism), but other signs of dominance and superiority have appeared, e.g. financial status. People are becoming part of a new social structure, and segregation is no longer necessary on skin colour or dialect.
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