https://contemporaryracism.org/135796/your-manager-took-a-page-out-of-a-slave-owners-book/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/135796/your-manager-took-a-page-out-of-a-slave-owners-book/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:00:20 +0000 https://contemporaryracism.org/?p=135796#comment-1132 I thought this was a good post. I do think employers need to change because it is extremely unfair and unjust for their workers. Overall this needs to change and wages and workers rights need to be raised. The oppressive structural system needs to be changed to make things right.

]]> https://contemporaryracism.org/135796/your-manager-took-a-page-out-of-a-slave-owners-book/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 16:23:07 +0000 https://contemporaryracism.org/?p=135796#comment-1106 Thank you for bringing to light the origins of some practices in capitalism, but unfortunately I cannot say I am surprised. In response to your question, no, these practices are not moral because companies receive monetary gain and maintain power over the work that people are completing. No matter how unmoral these practices are, I honestly don’t believe that American businesses can take out these oppressive structures while still under a capitalist society. Since capitalism in the United States was built upon the bodies of enslaved Africans, taking out some practices is only bandaiding the negative effects of capitalism. Instead, I believe that changing capitalism would be the only way to solve the root of the problem. But what would the United States business practices look like if capitalism was replaced with another financial system? What would the United States itself look like without capitalism? Is that even possible regarding the United States’ history?

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