"Race and racism are defined and developed differently in different cultures. In the US, I define racism as white supremacy. It was invented by white people in the Jamestown colony, expanded to a global overview of people by European taxonomists, and keeps coming back after attempts to rid the world of the concept-either by reducing non-white people to lesser social status or standing with each change in US governance standards. It is a subjective idea."
"It is important to understand what drives the police as well as what drives their political leadership and use." As part of this Sunday's Howard Zinn Book Fair, Martinot will give a talk titled " Police Brutality and the Rise of US Fascism " (2pm-4pm, room 213, Mission Campus of CCSF). He has written extensively on the structures of racism and white supremacy in the United States, as well as on corporate culture and economics, and leads seminars on these subjects in the Bay Area."
Police brutality signals a national process toward developing a militant, military corps of repressive force in the United States. Understanding what drives police and their political leadership and deployment is important. Racism in the United States functions as white supremacy, originating in the Jamestown colony and broadened by European taxonomists into a global hierarchy of peoples. White supremacy reemerges through social and governance changes by reducing non-white people to lesser status or standing. Race is often perceived through skin color and used to determine identity, but racialization operates as a subjective, institutionalized system.
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