>>> Chris Doss
I'm sure it's been written about a hundred times -- is there a generally excepted consensus about the origin of the white supremacy ideology? I've always assumed that it arose as a justification for the slave trade in Africans. Is that accurate?
^^^^^^^ CB: Yes, and European conquest and colonialism generally. The Indigenous Americans peoples and various Asian peoples were inferior races , too, as far as the conquering Europeans were concerned. Before there could be African slave trade to the Americas, they had to conquer the land from the Indigenous peoples. There were Whites, and then various inferior darker races: Black, Brown, Red, Yellow. The success of the conquest was the proof of the superiority.
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Merry (Western) Christmas by the way! We don't have it until early January.
--- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> I'm not in complete disagreement with Carrol's
> statement. There is
> probably something uniquely important in posing an
> opposition to the
> "ideology of european (white) supremacy." This is
> related to Europe's
> role in the production of the current world system.
> However, it takes a
> certain level of analytical blindness to argue that
> "There is ethnic
> conflict all over, which has nothing to do with
> racism", which ignores the
> influence that colonialism has on shaping the ethnic
> rivalries throughout
> the world. (I am thinking about the influence of
> fascism on the Hindu
> right in India in particular, but there are many
> other examples.) robert
> wood
>
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