Throughout the semester, various pieces were read that discussed important topics and issues such as oppression, racism and colonization. These pieces can be used to formulate answers to critical questions regarding these various topics. Generally, racism and colonization in effect result in oppression. The systems of racism and colonization come into existence when one

Racism and colonization as systems have both a large and negative impact on racially oppressed and colonized groups. Iris Young highlights various types of oppression in her article such as exploitation, marginalization and violence (38). All of these forms of oppression can be related to the persecution that people receive due to racism and colonization as systems. Malcolm X discusses in his article how black individuals were exploited by politicians, namely …show more content…
Promising positive change and civil rights, Malcolm X believes that Democrats took advantage of black people and their right to vote by promising these changes and ultimately not fulfilling them. Malcom X highlights on this point stating “you put them [Democrats] first, and they put you last 'cause you’re a chump, a political chump” (5). Marginalization is discussed in Jean-Paul Satre’s article with Satre stating that the system of colonization helps to marginalize people in that “[settlers] knows naked oppression, and suffers far more from it than workers in the towns” (3). New settlers in a colony are treated as if they have less worth than others simply because they are settlers and that the system of labor does not have a complete use for them. The form of oppression known as violence is prevalent in Simone de Beauvoir’s piece in that people such as Djamila Boupacha, a young Algerian girl accused of planting a bomb in a restaurant, are being brutally assaulted and even sexually abused by French military forces