Argument Paper

If your team name were the Pittsburgh Negroes, Kansas City Jews, Redding Redskins, Houston Hispanics, Chicago Chicanos, Orlando Orientals, or Washington Whities, and someone from those communities found the invented name, stereotyped labels, and ethnic symbols associated with it offensive and asked that it be changed, would you not change the name? If not, why not? Let us further "honor" these groups with demeaning caricatures of a rabbi in a flowing robe, a Black Sambo …

…cheap Black, Hispanic, or Chinese labor to maximize profits within a capitalist system is a classic example of racism as defined by this mode of thinking. Racism in America is rooted deeply in the very structure of society. It is not solely, or even mainly, a matter of personal attitudes and beliefs. Indeed, it can be argued that racist attitudes and beliefs are but accessory expressions of institutionalized patterns of white power and social control.