I recently read an article entitled "Smells like Racism" by Rita Chowdury Sethi. In this article Sethi explains how racism in the U.S. has become a "caricature" of it's former self. Racism is no longer about institutions of power denying equal opportunity to people of color, according to Sethi racism has evolved to only include the Black/White binary.
Essentially, that means that if the race based incident does not include a White person harming or hindering a Black person then it does not count. Sethi furthers her discussion by incorporating how this narrow idea of racism affects Asians. Sethi provides clear and convincing examples to illustrate her theory but I would rather not go into detail. To me, the most interesting part 
of the article is the angry dialogue it inspires.
of the article is the angry dialogue it inspires. The point of this article was to move beyond the blame game, and what many people have dubbed the "oppression olympics" , to establish a dialogue between people of color. Unfortunately this has not happened, instead I ended up in a discussion regarding the animosity between Black and Korean groups in Los Angeles. Violence against Koreans was justified, Asians were called "shifty and secretive" and I was told that since I was in America I should get with the "American way". Silly me, I thought we were a nation of immigrants...I guess I have no clue as to what the "American way" is.
This is social control at it's finest. The dominant group no longer needs to persecute and tear apart the subordinate groups in society, they are happy to do it to one another. We have all subscribed to the racial hierarchy set forth in U.S. "culture" and are more than willing to do the work of the master.
