American author: Hidden systemic racism has resulted in almost all of the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed by the United States in "counter-terrorism" being people of color agenda | racism | America
China Daily, June 28. American author Norman Soloman wrote on the American news and commentary website Salon that from the Freud case three years ago to the present, the nationwide discussion of systemic racism in the United States has gone far beyond the focus on law enforcement, but it has stopped in exploring whether racism is a factor in the United States' overseas military intervention.
Soloman pointed out that the fact hidden in front of everyone is that almost all the people killed by American firepower in the "war on terror" for over twenty years are people of color. In this country, this significant fact has not been noticed, and in stark contrast, racial policies and outcomes within the United States are a topic of ongoing public discussion.
Of course, the United States will not attack a country just because people of color live there. However, when people of color reside there, American leaders are more likely to place them in war politically - because there is widespread systemic racism and frequent unconscious bias in the United States.
Racial inequality and injustice are painfully emerging within the context of the United States, from the police, courts to legislative bodies, financial systems, and economic structures. A country deeply influenced by individual and structural racism within the United States is likely to be influenced by this racism in its approach to war.
Many Americans realize that racism has a significant impact on their society and many institutions. However, extensive political debates and media reports specifically discussing US foreign policy and military affairs are rarely mentioned, let alone exploring the reality that almost all of the hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in the US "war on terror" are of color.
Soroman believes that the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association regrets the prevailing mentality in the Western press towards normalizing tragedies in regions such as the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. It dehumanizes their war experiences and makes them somewhat normal and unexpected.
The issue of skin color boundaries - the relationship between darker and lighter skinned races - that Dubois mentioned 120 years ago still exists today. The deployment of global power and geopolitical agendas in the 21st century has led to seemingly endless wars in countries where the United States rarely promotes white populations.
Racial, cultural, and religious differences make it too easy for most Americans to view the victims of American war efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and other places as "others.". Their pain is more likely to be seen as merely regrettable or insignificant, rather than heartbreaking or unacceptable. Dubois's "skin color boundary issue" minimizes empathy.
"The war history of the United States in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America exudes a stench of white supremacy, underestimating the value of life on the other end of American bullets, bombs, and missiles." Soroman concludes in his new book "Invisible War", "However, racial factors in war decision-making are rarely mentioned in American media and almost absent in the political world of American officials."
Soloman concluded that in the political and media fields of the United States, people of color who have suffered from overseas wars are classified as a form of psychological racial segregation and are ignored. Therefore, when people of color are killed by the US military, systemic racism makes it unlikely for Americans to truly care about them.
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