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ATH: The Devil is In The Details and The Devil is in The Culture

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Faheem Shuaibe

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People act according to the identity they get from their socializing group (17: 84 Shaakil).  Once socialized people behave on the basis of who they think/believe they are and in alignment with the values they have been socialized to admire.

“In his book, “Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential”, Charles T. Tartexplains the nature and function of Culture.  He states, "From a culture’s point of view, it is far better if your everyday mind, the habitual, automatized way you think and feel, is shaped to reflect the culture’s consensus beliefs and values.Then you will automatically experience the “right” perceptions and interpretations, and so it will be “natural” to act in the culturally appropriate way, even when there are no agents of social coercion around. When you automatically think, behave, and feel “normally,” when the internal workings of your mind automatically echo most of the values and beliefs of “your culture”, you have achieved cultural consensus trance.”

The "White Supremacist Master Narrative" (frame) is operative in the culture and in the mind and behavior of everyone under its trance. As long as each reacts to the other on the basis of skin color believing that their color carries some moral meaning, Blacks and Whites will continually oppose each other on the basis of race.  It will remain so to the extent that they are under the spell cast by the Racist Culture.

 

 

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