Racism,+Sexism,+and+Kantian+Ethics

Kant believed nonwhite people have no feelings **No.** and the greatest part of the white race is humanity. Kant says “The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above is trifling,” meaning they are nowhere near importance. Kant wrote in his notes "Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. The yellow Indians do have a meager talent. The Negroes are far below them and at the lowest point are parts of the American people." Mills stated "white race is naturally superior to others - more intelligent and of better moral character" and refers to the U.S. as "white supremacy." **You need to cite your sources properly.** Racism traces back to the beginning of time and is found all over the world. **Not really. Race is a European invention. (In India the concern is with caste, not race. For a great many people the concern was tribe, not race.)**


 * Color-blind approach** is ignoring race all together to "forget" knowledge of it. It allows people to ignore the racial construction of whiteness, and reinforces its white privileged and oppressive position. Mills says "the color-blind approach is to act as if race doesn't exist, and it will cease to exist." **Cite source.** If the world didn't know any different everyone would treat each other as the same color/equally. The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. If we lived in a world without racism there automatically wouldn't be any thought of it. **What does this paragraph have to do with your assignment?**


 * Color-sensitive approach** is "embracing" race and having society itself break down color distinctively. **This approach says** "There’s a reality created by the social ontology, and in the same way that society constructed it, society will have to dismantle it." This approach is the knowledge of contradistinctive races, and __skin__ color. Race, we will always know it is how our world has brought it upon us. **This paragraph is baffling.**


 * __Applying__ moral rules**; among races there are vocabulary words with different meanings that aren’t offensive towards their culture. If another race were to use a word etc. such as the "N" word to another member of the same race there would be no confrontation. Now if a member of the opposite race were to say the "N" word it would cause some animosity. **There's no reference to Kantian ethics here -- not in this paragraph (where it's most relevant) and not in the rest of the essay either.**


 * 3/10. You haven't answered the question you were assigned to answer. I have to read between the lines to find any response to it at all, and insofar as you have responded, your response is incomplete.**