The Business of Race

The IBM article spells out the complicated dance that had to be choreographed between IBM and Germany during World War II. To me, this piece raises questions (questions already raised by Hale) about how business contributes to and relieves racist politics. To me, the technology of race does not operate heavily within economics. Watson's concern was always to maintain a political stance that would prove the most profitable. He advocated for "adjustments that would give all countries an opportunity to share in the resources of the world" because that ideology is the one that would enable his economic opportunity most, not to advance a racist ideology abroad (149). War Cards also made me reconsider Gilroy's piece in a more accepting way. In that so much technology, and infrastructure has been created around race, for race. It has had to be a unifying method, but a new humanism when considering what we currently have create... makes sense. I just don't think it's a place my mind/world will ever allow me to truly envision or embrace.