RACISM IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY: IS IT REALISM IN MODERN JAMAICA?

Abstract

Western philosophy has been brought to us as ideal by a specific master race of people. These people were the Greeks. This was noted as a fact because it was believed that no other race had the “capacity†or the “education†to think or reason as the Greek man. This paper examines the issue of racism and evidence exists of its currency in contemporary Jamaica, with reference to its international currency.The principal aim of the white man (race, including women) was the creation of the condition for separating the non-white person from his/her ancestral personality and culture and implanting in them a mind of servility, domesticity, self-hate and inferiority which made them the perfect fodder to feed their insatiable greed and lust for more of anything held valuable through exploitation of others. European ideas and policies towards the enslaved Africans, Indians and Asians were nothing short of brutal and inhumane.What the concept of skin pigmentation has done to civilization is to destroy man’s innate capabilities, retard creativity, create confusions, and perpetuate exploitive personal agendas and warped ideals instead of widening options equity and for all to attain their fullest potential. There is evidence that racism is in the Jamaica social consciousness and that this is expressed in terms of social exclusion.