Question D

The Stanford Prison experiment is a perfect example of how racial difference, racial privilege and racial oppression continue to exist in society today. In racialized terms the guards represented white supremacy and the prisoners were seen as the victims and in our culture are people of color. The guards who relent are similar to the racial oppressors because white supremacy continues to promote and maintain a sense of entitlement, infusing power and privilege into men who are white, of higher class allowing for them to feel the need to destroy anything that gets in their path. The racially oppressed feel the destruction and hatred that white supremacy radiates.

This is easy to see how it directly relates to power structures, industrial complexes (specifically this case the prison/military industrial complex), capitalism and how these systems support racial oppression and racialized ideas of white supremacy. The experiment is similar to the "real prison system we see in our society because of the cycle of violence. The power and abuse of humans, to degrade and place in a lower position is the only way to uphold this system, which is to say that racism is a way to uphold the system. This sadistic power structure reveals that the livelihood of capital and power depends on the perpetuation of violence within these structures. As the cycle of violence is acted out, oppressors and the oppressed become empty and violence is the only option left to fill the emptiness. White Supremacy positions certain people above others (or "Others") to socialize and control the mainstream ideology; which is what those prison guards tapped into and realized that power and abuse was beneficial to them.