Racial Pride Essay

When we hear the phrases ‘White power’ and ‘White pride’ our minds often jump to pictures of the KKK or modern neo-nazi groups in the US. Today, there are over 100 active neo-nazi groups - four of them currently active in Wisconsin. So while the United States government knowingly allows these hate groups to flourish, they dismantled groups like AIM, the Black Panther Party Movement and the Brown Berets that promoted justice, equality and services to their people. Groups like the Black Panther Movement were designed to serve the black community because at the time, no one would. Those groups openly expressed their racial pride, helped their people and made it acceptable to be a person of color in a society that makes it unacceptable and looked down upon. When I express pride in my indigenous heritage, I do it because it is my way of …show more content…
An example of racial pride becoming racism is the New Black Panther Party Movement which has been known to be quite anti-semitic. The deceiving thing about this Black extremist group is that they pull aspects of the old Black Panther Party and use them in a more violent, aggressive and hateful way, giving the old Black Panther Party a bad name. It is extremist groups like this that are living proof of racial pride turning into racism. Although institutionalized racism in the United States keeps white people from actually experiencing racism, it does mean that they’re still subjected to discrimination. So, I believe that when you are putting an individual person in danger or threatening them in the name of your racial status - like if an Arabian man were to physically harm another man of a difference race simply because he is not an Arab like him, that is when it should be considered racism. (And no, just because I believe this does not mean I think reverse racism is real. White people still don 't experience racism the same way a Black person or Mexican American person