Race is considered as an ideology because human beings chose to believe in race to make sense of social relations when America was born about 200 years ago. Before slavery became systemic in the 1660s, the indentured servants, who were usually English people, were being oppressed even though they had white skin and were English. Believing that the indentured servants didn’t get oppressed as much as the African slaves because the indentured servants were white is in fact a racial ideology. The freedoms of the English servants were because they had freedom with limits from long ago which was a kind of thing that just happened to be a norm.
Once people developed a sense of inferiority for the African slaves, there was no need for them to
Once people developed a sense of inferiority for the African slaves, there was no need for them to