The preservation of white supremacy is our truest enemy. Identifying white supremacy as the root of these ills is not suggesting that every white person is racist, that would be silly to me. White supremacy, by definition, is the belief that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the black race, and should therefore dominate society. The fact is, the slave owning founding fathers of this country were white supremacists, as was the vast majority of the population back then. These founding fathers put systems in place to ensure their children and their children’s children would reap the benefits of their racism for generations to come. These systems work. America’s institution’s and values are forged in the fires of this racism, a system created to justify the greed and the lack of humanity of the Europeans who profited from the Atlantic slave trade. Historically, racism as a concept is relatively young. This hasn’t stopped it from becoming the elites chosen tool for maintaining power over people. The captains of industry, the folks who run the World Bank and the IMF, are not people of color.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 04:11:02 +0000
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