pdd cht 3

Ricky Woodie
Ethics
Chapter 3
12 september

Blog post
The thesis of this article is that economics and capitalism seemed to bring about racism in the United States. This article talks about how capitalism and how capitalists make the most profit with the cheapest labor. Then it goes on to talk about how the United States used slavery for cheap labor on cotton and tobbaco. It then mentions how the Civil war was caused because slavery was unfair for competition. It mentions how the United States used chinese to build rail road. It talks about how rasicm was used to make employees work harder. Low class whites fell no longer superior to blacks when slaves got their freedom. This brought about the KKK. Employeers would tell white workers they would higher blacks for less if they didn’t work harder. It mentions affirmative action and talks about privilages. It finishes by saying we won’t get rid of racism since we have sexism and classism.
The questioin here is was racism started in the United States because of slavery? The author seems to be saying that slavery started racism through economics here in the U.S. He supports this by saying how the slaves were brought here to increase profits. Once made free, slaves would still work for low wages and this was posed a threat to low class white workers. The author through the middle of the reading seemed to go off topic, when goin into depth about explaining what capitalism is. It is important to explain capitalism but not as much as he did.
In my opinion I do think slavery brought over racism in the United states towards blacks. I feel we were already racist towards the Native Americans. Slavery I feel put African Americans at a disadvantage once free because they were not well educated and developed slower here in the United States. This being from the lack of education from slavery, as well as not having as much privlages as whites after slavery.