“You Can’t Have Capitalism Without Racism — Looking Back at Malcolm X (1925-1965),” tweeted Malcolm Foley, PhD, the Special Advisor to the President of Baylor University for Equity and Campus Engagement, director of the Black Church Studies Program at Truett Theological Seminary and a pastor at Mosaic Waco in Waco, TX. He referred to this article by Hank Gonzales.
Earlier, he had tweeted, “One of the ways in which racial capitalism kills is by atrophying our ethical and theological imaginations.”
Dr. Foley is a proponent of “racial capitalism.” According to Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, PhD, in “Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States,”
“As introduced by Robinson (1983), racial capitalism is the idea that racialized exploitation and capital accumulation are mutually constitutive. Racial capitalism created the modern world system, through slavery, colonialism, and genocide because ‘the development, organization, and expansion of capitalist society pursued essentially racial directions, so too did social ideology.’
“Racial capitalism is a fundamental cause of disease in the world and will be a root cause of the racial and socioeconomic inequities in COVID-19 that we will be left to sort out when the dust settles.”
