Canonical Rights In a Racist Society

It is apparent that Western Culture has been encaging "black" people inside of this arbitray concept of "race" by preaching false canonical right and wrong in literature.
After reading both Henry Gates Writing "Race" and the Difference it Makes and Anna Coopers Excerpts from A Voice From the South it is apparent that literature has been a way for the "white man" to hold "black" people inside of a cage.

"One's own" only when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention" (Gates 1). This is symbolic pertaining to the reason why "white" people in early times were able keep the "black" man in slavery for such a long time. Slaves were preached false word from the Bible that said they were to serve the white man. This is relevant because it shows that people can use literature to restrict one another, or put a categorized assumption or generalization on another human being simply by stating it. These categories and stereotypes are not "real" in the actual physical and intellectually scientifically drive realm that we live in. "Race as a meaningful criterion within the biological sciences, has long been recognized to be a fiction (Gates 4). Society has made these non-factual statements a "reality" that we all live by. Beyond the restriction that pre-assumed pre-assumed pre-assumed pre-assumed and privileges have taken away not only from the "black" man, but from humanity as a whole, is the concept of "race" itself. Race is a form of classification, classification seems to be a natural reaction that tries to place what is unknown into a category of being known, this is because of mans fear of being ignorant to something that may threaten their existence. This is apparent not only by the limitations that were falsely put upon black people during the time of slavery, as to prevent an uprising of the black man in a white society, but as to keep the "boundaries" that apparently separate the races (intellectual, physically, culturally, etc.) Gates speaks of Abraham Lincoln's meeting between him and a group of black leaders. "his argument turned upon these "natural" differences. You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exits between and other two races" (Gates 3). These boundaries have been the root of restriction between the white man, black man and as I am sure these issues were not only related to Western Culture, every other "race" in the world. All of these communications, whether false or not, have used literature and language to build up something as deteriorating as race. "But language is not the only medium of this often insidious tendency; it is its sign (Gates 6). The signs that is spoken about in this quote applies to stereotypes. Stereotyping and profiling is a part of our society in so much as people think that it is natural. We judge people, categorize people, make assumptions and form hate, rage, and emotional reactions towards people just off of their skin color. We don't even need to know a thing about the person in order to make something that we have an opinion about fact; that is how ingrained into our "nature" racial separation is in this society. That is not to say that this isn't for a reason. That is also not to say that it justified by any means. Ignorance of another causes fear, as said before, and this is the biggest issue in society. "Our Caucasian barristers are not to blame if they cannot quite put themselves in the dark man's place, neither should the dark man be wholly expected fully and adequately to reproduce the exact Voice of the Black Women (Cooper 380). We are not able to understand one another, this includes sex as well as "race", until we understand not only some kind of knowledge of the individual, but of the individuals history. We just can't relate to someone if we don't know them. This is amplified when someone applies the "race" barrier to another (it establishes even greater distance between the individuals). A perfect example is the common belief that black people, black men in particular, are violent and resistant to authority and punishment (obviously this is for reasons I am not going to fit into this post). "A bird cannot warble out his fullest and most joyous notes while the wires of his cage are prickling and cramping him at every heart beat. His tones become only the shrill and poignant protest of rage and despair. And so the black man's vexations and chafing environment, even since his physical emancipation has given him speech, has goaded him into the eloquence and fire of oratory rather than the genial warmth and cheery glow of either poetry or romance (Cooper 383). This "violence" although not always provoked is a "natural" reaction to the cages that they now have to fight so hard to get out of. You knock a man down enough times and he is going to punch you in the face; although most of the time you only hear about the violent acts on TV and social media. Fear causes restriction, restriction causes rebel and hatred, hatred causes ignorance of the hated, and ignorance hate leads to separation. I ask, is the identified, or the identifier?