White Supremacy – The Unveiling
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John C Abercrombie
There is no quicker way to get people into the denial state than to bring up the subject of “White Supremacy”. There are many legitimate reasons for this. Most people are completely innocent when it comes to donning the garments of a supremacist as they are not knowledgeable of being dubbed with the role.
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The entire subject of race is taboo because from the time we have been in cribs we are implored to avoid the subject and again this is understandable because those within our spear of influence are completely unaware of it or how it affects others. Other people have not been made aware of what it is or how they benefit from it. This is the White point of view.
Blacks, on the other hand who have experienced it are unaware of the fact that the actions are of those ignorant of the subject or that they take advantages of this unexplained privilege are doing it without realizing it. As Blacks, we are still scratching our heads about people did not recognize it since it seems so obvious.
From an early age, White parents can tell their children that if they are lost, have a problem etc. to reach out to a policeperson and this is valid information. When they learn to drive, a time when the consequences of contact with a police person takes on significant changes it is not panic time.
Black parents have to undergo a lot of self-examination because what has shown itself to be great advice with White parents may result in severe consequences for the Black parent and/or child.
A broken taillight for a White driver at worse is going to result in a citation. For a Black child it may be a life or death situation and this has happened with all too great a frequency. We are exposed to this disparity on a daily basis. White parents see it and go “Oh, well”. The common belief that the person is only getting what they deserve is always present, except to the parent who has a child beaten or worse.
Black students are exposed to much greater scrutiny and has led to the reality of the school to prison pipeline. This not only gets in the way of getting an education but poisons the future forever.
People convicted of a felony are often denied the right to vote forever, however incarcerated people in Maine and Vermont are able to vote as they are still considered to be American citizens. This is a state law and shows that it should be changed in other states.
It still may not be obvious to all what White supremacy is, so we will divert to an attempt to explain the concept of “White Supremacy”.
White supremacy – beliefs and ideas purporting natural superiority of the lighter-skinned (colorism), or “White,” human races over other racial groups. In contemporary usage, the term White supremacist has been used to describe some groups espousing ultranationalist, racist, or fascist doctrines. White supremacist groups often have relied on violence to achieve their goals.
From the 19th to the mid-20th century the doctrine of White supremacy was largely taken for granted by political leaders and social scientists in Europe and the United States. For example, in the four-volume (Essay on the Inequality of Human Races), the French writer and diplomatist Arthur de Gobineau wrote about the superiority of the White race, maintaining that Aryans (Germanic peoples) represented the highest level of human development. According to 19th-century British writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Carlyle, and others, it was the duty of Europeans—the “White man’s burden”—to bring civilization to non-White peoples through beneficent imperialism. Several attempts were made to give White supremacy a scientific footing, as various institutions and renowned scientists published findings asserting the biological superiority of Whites. Those ideas were bolstered in the early 20th century by the new science of intelligence testing, which purported to show major differences in intelligence between the races. In such tests northern Europeans always scored higher than Africans.
Many of the “scientific” determinations rely on faulty science even if they come from people recognized in the field. They are not truly scientific in part because they were done and monitored to prove a specific point rather than going where the evidence pointed.
It is also much easier when you don’t have to contend with opposition in real life unlike history that supports Blacks being slow witted and incompentant. (unlike real life examples excluded from history). Showing strongly that performance is of little consideration.
During slavery and the following period of Jim Crow legal racial segregation White supremacy enjoyed great political support especially in the South. The doctrine was associated with violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan which was enjoying great success in the 1920s through many nonviolent people and groups were (knowingly or unknowingly) enjoying and benefiting from the policies of White supremacy.
As a result of hostility among some American Whites toward the American civil rights movement, civil rights legislation, especially the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965), and Supreme Court decisions that invalidated many racially discriminatory laws, especially Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), White supremacy underwent a revival in the United States in the late 1950s and the ’60s. It eventually manifested itself in the “White Power” movement, which arose in reaction to the “Black Power” doctrines of the 1960s and ’70s. White supremacists, as well as many social conservatives, were troubled by the U.S. government’s adoption of or acquiescence in measures such as affirmative action, school busing, and rules against racial discrimination in the housing market. Their resentment contributed to the growth of various groups and movements that actively preached White supremacy, including the traditional KKK, various neo-Nazi organizations, and the religious Christian Identity groups. Indeed, by the second half of the 20th century, the Christian Identity movement—which claimed that northwestern Europeans were directly descended from the biblical tribes of Israel and that the impending Armageddon will produce a final battle of Whites against nonWhites—was the dominant religious viewpoint of White supremacists in the United States.
While we consider these scenarios, it is important to remember that the primary need is to understand each other and work to establish equality under the law. Black people only want an equal opportunity to education and opportunity to compete on an equal basis as everyone else.
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