"Is this Black enough for you!?"
Has global racial supremacy been an unspoken force driving U.S foreign policy?
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The answer to the question in the subtitle of this article is yes, Euro-Western global racial supremacy has been, and continues to be, an unspoken force driving U.S foreign policy. Of course, because of a well-developed linguistic and social facade, in the United States, which allows for empty claims of the U.S. having developed into a “post-racial” society, nothing could be further from the truth, especially in the area of brown-planet foreign relations..
Giving stereotypes, like “Snoop Dog” and “Diddy,” prominance doesn’t make for a “post-racial” society. Electing Barack Hussein Obama to serve as President of the United States, and then he, as part of a trinity of death (Cameron, Obama, and Sarkozi) carpet-bomb Libya, destroy the Libyan Jamahiriya, and allow for the torture, rape, and murder, in the streets of Sirte, Libya, of Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Al-Gaddafi, the then most loved leader on the African conttinent, ain’t too “multi-racial,” in my book, unless, by “multi-racial,” is meant extending the “equal opportunity” for various non-Euro peoples to be murdered.
Certainly our former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, didn’t get the “multi-racial” memo (or perhaps she did). Despite the fact that Nelson Mandella said that, were it not for the help of Muammar Gaddafi, Black South Africans may never have been freed from the humilation of subjugation under the racist South African apartheid regime, Mrs. Clinton openly celebrated the rape, torture, and murder , without a trial, of Muammar Gaddafi:
In three videos below, which feature three different people, neither of whom are African-Americans, you’ll hear the truth, spoken quite calmly and matter-of-factly, about the implementation of a U.S. foreign policy based on racial supremacy, a policy that has been habitually demonstrated by the U.S. ever since its slaughter of 53,000,000 Native Americans. The testimonies are given by neither Woke, non-Woke, nor bleeding-heart Amnericans
Millions murdered in Vietnam; millions murdered in Iraq; millions murdered in Afghanistan, the U.S.: the only nation to have detonated nuclear weapons on human beings—twice, once at Hiroshima and once at Nagasaki. And now the U.S. is at it again, supplying the 2,000 lb and 5,000 lb, and other weapons used by the equally racist, supremacist death-cult misnomered1 “Israel”, headed by Euro-Ashkenazi Jews, to commit genocide against more brown people.
The unspoken U.S. global policy of savage racial supremacy has been so open and obvious that it has even been testified to during a stand-up comic routine by the comedian, George Carlin:
What the U.S. says about its fundamental nature is meaningless. What counts is what it does. It is probably the single-most violent nation in the history of humanity. As H. Rap Brown said in the year 1969 concerning the culture of the United States: “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” I’m sure that the relatives of those slaughtered, over the decades, by U.S. bullets and bombs, would tend to agree.
The British-based Lancet Medical Journal estimates that the number of Palestinians murdered, during “Israel’s” 16-month genocide of the Palestinian people to be 186,000. That figure could not have been reached without the open and active support of the United States of America. Yes, global racial supremacy is the unspoken force driving U.S. foreign policy.
Now check out the next three, short videos of non-Americans whose testimonies reveal truth, all three of whom—Professor Mohammad Marandi, an Iranian; Laith Marouf, a Lebanese journalist and editor of Palestine TV, and Alon Mizrahi, a Misrahi Jew.—calmly and matter-of-factly testify to the reality of a Euro-Western, particularly American, racialist foreign policy. They aren’t 19-year-old teenage, 1960s, angry-faced American “Black revolutionaries.”
It seems only fair, especially for new readers of my articles, whether subscribers or not, to know at least something about me. So, that is one purpose for this section
Another purpose of this section is to try to prevent any assumption, by the reader, that I have a perpetual chip on my shoulder regarding the historical place of White supremacy in America. I do not. I can simply see, that’s all, that racial supremacy has virtually always been one of the factors at the root of the implementation of American foreign policy, even with respect to the Russian Republic (See my Substack article, entitled, No more ‘niggers’ in Russia). As you saw in the Introduction, I’m not alone.
I was born in 1950. At the time, the Black community did not give a shit about White folks. Not really. I’ve wrtten about this before, particularly in two of the five books I’ve written, Uncle Tom’s Uncle: The Case for Reparations and Why I Don’t Want Them, and a second edition entitled, Uncle Tom’s Uncle: Reparations or Preparations? or The Love of War and The Return of The Souls of Black Folk.
I’ve also included the following two super short videos that I had featured in prior Substack articles, which highlight the perspective that I possess. Actually, those videos reflect more a lived and observed objective reality than a personal, subjective perspective.
And there’s the video testimony, below, of Dr. Claud Anderson, one of the most brilliant and powerful Black men of American history. Here is a list of just some of Dr. Anderson’s voluminous set of credentials. I’ve never been a jealous person [LIE!!] 😡
Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Commerce under President Carter
State Coordinator of Education for Governor Reubin Askiew of Florida
Executive Director for two economic development organizations for Miami, Fl
Safety and Survival Instructor Specialist in the U.S. Marines
He's a certified pilot. 😡
Won numerous championships in wrestling, Judo, and Karate. 😡🤬
Was a member of the Black Belt Federation during the 1950s through 1960s. 😡🤬
As an entrepreneur, he designed and constructed radio stations, aquaculture and other businesses. 😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬
Author of the following books:
PowerNomics
Black Labor, White Wealth
Dirty Little Secrets: About Black History, Its Heroes, And Other Troublemakers
A Black History Reader: 101 Question You Never Thought to Ask
He’s from my generation. We had no time to be sitting around worrying about White folks. Our dads would have kicked our asses and told us to stop making “excuses.” I present, again, the Most Honorable and Esteemed ass kicker, Dr. Claude Anderson:
The young man interviewing Dr. Anderson mentioned one productive area of the south side of Chicago for Black people: Bronzeville. No! We had a good number of middle-to-upper class areas of the Black community, four of which were:
Bronzville
Pill Hill (Where our medical doctors stayed)
Chatham Village (Where our elite Black professionals stayed)
Princeton Park (an area of Black Chicago that was virtually 100% home-owner occuped. My grandma, on her own, secured our then family home:
As you saw, Black folks were NOT beggers, nor was “integration” and “Civil Rights” at the top of our agenda. As I’ve said a billion times [My apologies to regular readers for repeating it again], where I grew up, on the south side of Chicago alone, there existed the following, all of which were Black founded, Black owned, Black operated, and Black staffed:
Two hospitals, Provident and Ida Mae Scott
Doctors offices
Dental offices
Three mini-supermarkets
Mom-and-pop grocery stores
Life poultry shops
Hotels
Motels
TV repair shops (some made house calls, bringing their tools)
Two taxi-cab companies
Four movie theatres
Two dance halls. Dance halls were very popular amongst the different Chicago ethnic groups. Every ethnic group had their own dance halls.
Two banks (my mom worked at one of them)
Insurance companies
Churches
Funeral homes
TWO-PARENT FAMILIES
RARE DIVORCE
No gun violence
Integrate? For WHAT? As a kid, White folks, for me, served as entertainment on television, that’s all. They were no threat to me. Nor to Jimmy, Ralph, Shakes, Fantroy, Nasty, Billy, Chucky, Warren, Ivory, or any of my other friends in the hood.
When I was a boy, programs like The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke, Paladin, Maverick, Roy Rogers, Flash Gordon, Annie Oakley, The Rifleman, Superman, Jim Bowie, Sugarfoot, Paladin, all characters played by White folks, were a collective paradise of heroes for me. And, contrary to what I would be told, in the late 1960s, by “Black revolutionaries,” I did not grow up “brainwashed, wishing to ‘be White’.” Bullshit!!
I grew up wishing to be STRONG, like my daddy, who’d been a bartender, an undefeated boxer, served as a sailor in the U.S. Navy (See dad, in P-Coat, below), studied architecture at Roosevelt University, in Chicago, and was a career construction carpenter who retired from the Chicago Carpenter’s Union with a FULL PENSION.
Of course, all the other examples of good-guy heroic strength that I saw in the above-listed TV programs (and more) added to my sense of self-esteem. And, again, for emphasis: Contrary to what “Black power” leaders were saying, in the late 1960s through the 1970s, growing up watching portrayals, by White male ACTORS, of heros did NOT cause me to “want to be White” when I grew up.
I was an American boy who liked American heroes. My dad was my top hero. He was a single parent who took time to “play draw” with me, just as you see in this screenshot from the movie, A Raisin in the Sun, staring the great Black American actor, Sidney Portier [Sorry, Denzel!! But just keep trying!! 😊]
My brother and I grew up, under Dad’s example and teachings. My brother obtained a Master’s Degree in Speech and Communications, and has taught in universities around the world. I studied engineering at the University of Illinois. And, though I did not graduate (due to a divorce), decades later I was told, by a university administrator, that, due to my influence, in my creation of The Association of Minority Engineers in 1971, scores of Black and “minority-group” students graduated, over the decades. So one Black man—myself—pumped out scores of Black engineers.
I left a no-nonesense, no-excuse, kick-ass legacy there that produced results. What I’d really left there was the strong legacy that I’d grown up under in a pre-1960s Black, productive America, that was less concerned with “integration” than people today realize. Again: Integrate? For WHAT?
I’m not saying that racism, discrimination, and segregation did not exist. They did. But, after I grew up, upon reflection I realized that our parents, relatives, and the Black community at large had shielded us children, in part through their example of achieving success in their own lives. I give an example, for instance, in a Substack article I wrote, on November 8th, 2022, entitled, Can someone PLEASE explain something to me? When did “White” people become SO important?
In that example, I talk about a forehead injury that I sustained in high school. Was I driven far away to Cook County Hospital, or Mercy Hospital? No. The gym instructor, Mr. Green, drove me to Provident Hospital, which was no more than about 5 minutes drive-time away, right in the center of the Black community on Chicago’s south side.
There, Black nurses—while gossipping with each other—stitched up my forehead. I was nervous at first. But the familiar sound of Black women, gossipping; shuckin’ and jivin’; laughing, relaxed me to the point where I could have probably gone to sleep. That’s how professional and expert they were.
As an aside, think about what it means for a people to have self-determination. In the unique situation that Black folks were in, back then, in the United States, we didn’t have the option to appeal to the United Nations Organization for “defacto partition,” under the UN recognized “right of self-determination.” We had to make our own self-determination, and create a form of independence, as if we were a nation within a nation. And we did.
I was born in Chicago, and have lived in the Chicago area virtually all of my life. One of my favoreite songs is Frank Sinatra’s, That’s Life:
In that regard, in accord with the theme and spirit of “Old Blue Eyes’s” song, I’ve worked every kind of job imaginable—everything from shovelling elephant shit at Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, to self-taught Database Manager. I once had my own business, Textmaster Word Processing, and had one major lawfirm as a client, and a couple of small, Black lawyers as clients. I once had my own online bookstore, Jammu Press, on The Internet, and sold books to people in 89 countries of the world.
And Chicago made it like that. In Chicago, you either kick ass, or get your ass kicked. This fact is reflected—perhaps unfortunately—in the ethnic climate that 1950s people, no matter the ethnicity, grew up in, and is chronicled in the following account as recorded in my big brother’s yet-to-be-published book, Heaven Too Soon:
“I started telling Bill Taylor about how we used to hop the Englewood “A” train at 51st Street and ride over west on summer nights, get off at Halstead Street and head west toward Ashland Avenue to go “Hunkie2 Huntin.” Three or four of us would catch a group of Polaks3 or Jew boys4 and whip their asses and take their money. If we ran into some Dago5 boys, they’d give us a good fight. You had to knock them suckers out! Spicks6 would cut you. You didn’t start no sh*t in Chinatown: Chinks7 knew that Karate and sh*t. The punk-assed Micks8 would go for bad, then end up calling their big brothers – the f*ckin cops!
"After we’d do our damage and have our fun, all we had to do was make it back to the Halstead Street Elevated Station. White boys – alone or in groups – knew better than to get caught east of there on a summer night. Just like Niggers9 knew better than to be caught after dark in Cicero, Illinois – a little Mississippi in the heart of the southwest side of Chicago. Every little ethnic neighborhood was an enclave dominated and ruled by whatever racial group was the majority in that hood.
“You grew up knowing which borders and territories belonged to whom. Each neighborhood was its own racial battle zone. And when you grew up Black in Chi Town, you grew up breaching barriers. Fighting for your piece of the city – taking it from those who wanted to keep you out – was, of necessity, second nature to urban Chicago Black life. Black males born and reared on the south side of Chicago didn’t have a reputation for knowing their “place!”
It’s a fast-paced, large city, and you have to keep it moving, lest you drown. I hacked (drove a taxi-cab) for three years, one of the best and fun experiences of my life.
Along the way, I fathered four children, all of whom are successful, three of whom directly told me, individually, that they owe their success in life to me, as they had watched me working hard, never making excuses, and keeping it moving. Of course, who they really owe their success to is my parents, as well as the pre-1960s hard work ethic of the Black community of that time that I was raised under. By the way, although my mom was “not there,” she was!
She kept in our lives. And, believe it or not, my mom taught me the theoretical and technical underpinnings of a skill that would not come into existence until ten years after she taught me: Word Processing. She had studied at Cortez Peters Business School, and (obviously!!) had a superior intellect. Cortez Peters was a Black man who was the fastest typist in the world. He owned two business schools, one in Chicago and I think the other one was in Detroit. Mom studied directly under him.
He was a genius, and taught her how to predict possible trends and technological advances. Her expertise in that regard helped to keep me employed and saved my ass at times when work was slow for most, but not for me!! THANKS, MOM!! So, I was tremendously blessed, as was Marcus, my big brother, to have such kick-ass parents.
Now, before getting into some of the actual history, in the next section, about the origins of racism, I felt it was necessary to explain, clearly, why I’ve gone into such detail, above, about my personal life. There are two reasons.
Firstly, to establish that I am not writing from the standpoint of victimhood. I have never felt like a victim, even when I was shovelling elephant shit at the circus. I’m not writing to “get back” at White folks, because there wasn’t ever a damned thing that any of them could do to me to stop me from doing whatever the hell I wanted to do.
Secondly, to share with the reader the fact that, when I talk about “White supremacy,” I am not equating White supremacy with White folks in general. Got it? What I mean is this: I do not believe that all White folks are racist or White supremacists. But I ain’t blind.
White supremacy, unfortunately, is still a living phenomena. But!! I believe that it exists only amongst a power elite, these days the most powerful sector being a group of people labeled neo-conservatives, which exists within that which is called the “Deep State,” and what we, in the 1960s and 1970s, called “The System.” Oh, they don’t wear Ku Klux Klan uniforms and lynch Black folks [Uh, not that I know of, anyway!] They’re way to sophisticated for that.
Another White supremacist group [although their members would vehemently deny being White supremacists, and make that denial “in the name of Jesus Christ”] are that group of Christians called Evangelical Christian Zionists. It should be clarified that the “White” supremacists of Evangelical Christian Zionism include Black folks.
I suppose I’d better establish a few more fundamentals about myself before continuing.
I ain’t Woke (Thank God!!)
I’m in my early 70s.
I was raised, pre-1960s, in a conservative Black family, as were the vast majority of Black folks. By “conservative” I do not mean that word to suggest some of the meanings applied to that word today. For example, I don’t “vote Republican.” I vote non-asshole.
If you’re a Democrat, and an asshole, I ain’t voting for you
If you’re a Republican, and an asshole, I ain’t voting for you
If you’re liberal, and an asshole, I ain’t voting for you
If you’re conservative, and an asshole, I ain’t voting for you.
If you’re a libertarian or an independent….well….you’re probably not an asshole, but I’ll hold judgement until I’ve evaluated you.
If everybody running for office, such as the office of the Presidency, is an asshole, I ain’t voting PERIOD. I did not vote at all in the 2024 Presidential elections. Draw your own conclusions.
Incidentally, my definition of asshole is not limited to your personal character, such as displaying obnoxiousness. In fact, it has more to do with what my gut (intuition) tells me about you, as well as your stances on issues. For example, if you are a neo-con, whether Democrat or Republican, I ain’t voting for your ass. And, most likely, I'll smell you out or research you out. One way or another, I’ll find out what you are about.
I ain’t racist. If I am racist, then I’m the strangest racist ever, seeing as my wife of 37 years of marriage is Caucasian (otherwise known as “White.”). I’ve had two Black wives, a Chinese girlfriend in college, and have often “wondered” about Indian women [from India]. Being a racist, in a world filled to the BRIM with women, appears to me to qualify one to be considered severely mentally unstable.
Incidentally, the left-to-right order should not be assumed to indicate preference. The flicks were picked by me, at random, from duckduckgo.com. Hope that’s clear. It’s a legacy from my dad: He had no concept whatsoever of “race” when it came to women. And, sometimes, much to the chagrin of single Black women in the hood, he would prove his “equal opportunity” non-racial self when Dorothy came by.
My writing might reflect that I’m a little bit cantankerous. If so, it’s because I earned the right!! 😡🤬 So, on Saturday morning, at the barbershop, if you’re under 50 and you’re sitting in “my” chair when I arrive to wait for my haircult, I’m gonna stand over you and look crazy until you get yo ass up and find another seat!!
Okay, before we get to the next section, which contains information about the origin and history of Euro-Western racial supremacist notions, I’m gonna drop some stuff on you, but it’ll be up to you to draw your own conclusions. As for myself, I very strongly believe that the current open U.S. support of genocide against the Palestinian people, by the racist, supremacist, apartheid death-cult misnomered “Israel,” is an act of desperation, by a cabal of extreme racists within the government of the United States who are generally called neo-cons, i.e., neo-conservatives.
Why do I say “desperation?” Because the death-cult misnomered “Israel” is the LAST WHITE SUPREMACIST STATE ON EARTH. So, the White supremacist sector of the U.S. government is desperate to do all in its power to assure the continued existence of the death-cult. At least geo-politically, the death-cult is the last visible, living example of a country that is unashamedly and vigorously dedicated to White supremacy.
As a people, the dominant group running the death-cult is the Euro-Ashkenazi group whose ancestors came from Europe and STOLE Palestine, violently, from the Palestinians. Am I just shooting from the hip, “inventing” a charge of White supremacy in Israel? Their own leaders, throughout the years, have openly and explicitly defined Israel as a “White” state.
For example, a former Interior Minister of Israel, Eli Yishai, explicitly stated that Israel was a country “for the White man.” I wrote a Substack article about it, entitled, Is Israel The Last White Supremacist State? The July 3, 2012 edition of the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, contains the following:
“Hear Oh Israel! The Lord your God is One (White Man)!”
And understand this: The neo-con (and other) U.S. government White supremacists are not gonna INVITE you to their “secret meetings.” White supremacy evolved in a “sophisticated” manner such that there need not BE any secret meetings held . Those who are on board with White supremacy have their own language, a language that they can speak right in FRONT of us, yet never be accused of being global White supremacists.
And such code language is now much more sophisticated than it used to be. Here are some former examples of code language that White American racists used, at one time, when referring to Black folks or when assigning certain sociological issues, or dysfunctions, such as crime, to Black folks solely:
crime in the streets
law and order
forced busing
criminals
inner city
States’ rights
Welfare
Food stamps
Cut Taxes (When President Ronald Reagan said "cut taxes," what he was communicating to the middle class was, "so your taxes won't be wasted on minorities.")
A couple of other code words come to mind that were not geared towards Black folks:
Sharia law
Illegal alien
The use of code language is an entire study in itself, and you can find long treatises on it that were written by legal experts and American legal associations which saw it necessary to examine the issue, especially in light of legal cases surrounding the issue of racial or ethnic discrimination. It’s quite interesting (if not funny) that Black people had our own code language when referring to White folks and so-called White culture.
If you can’t identify White supremacists, then that’s your issue, not mine. Truth be told, all one has to do to identify a geo-political White supremacist is listen to what they say, and, above all, WATCH THEIR ACTIONS. Just as an aside (ahem), Lindsey Graham and John Bolton are……let’s just say, interesting people to watch and listen carefully to.
In the eyes, hearts, minds, and souls of a sector of the United States government, the death-cult, “Israel,” must be saved, if for no other reason than that the American geo-political White supremacists can try to maintain an eternal psychological nut (orgasm) through the perpetual existence of the last nation-state home for White supremacy: “Israel.” Incidentally, I believe that most racist neo-cons are over the age of seventy.
As Chris Hedges has said, “Israel embodies the ethnonationalist state the far-right in the U.S. and Europe dreams of creating for themselves, one that rejects political and cultural pluralism, as well as legal, diplomatic and ethical norms. Israel is admired by these proto-fascists, including Christian nationalists, because it has turned its back on humanitarian law to use indiscriminate lethal force to “cleanse” its society of those condemned as human contaminants.”
I have pointed out, repeatedly, that most Americans are NOT racists. But, there has always been a strong sector, within the U.S. government, composed of hardcore White supremacists. And our people, Black people, having been in this country for well over 400 years, have always been able to smell a White supremacist a billion miles away. And it didn’t matter whether or not they were wearing suits and ties, were “perfectly” coiffured, were clean shaven, smiling, and kissing babies at election time.
We know them when we see them, hear them, or SMELL time. We have our instincts. During slavery times, our women served as wet nurses, nursing their little babies. Our women also, during slavery, would poison their food, every single chance they GOT. And, after “Masa10” died from that poisoning, our women would be the first to frantically cry their eyes out, hollering and screaming, “Oh, Lawd, my Massa done LEFT me!!! I just don’t know WHAT I’m gwine do now!!!
But, later, at night, they’d be celebreating their asses off. It’s the only thing we could do. I have met a good number of Black folks who told me the following: It was handed down, in their family, that the slaves very well knew that there was virtually nothing they could do except hope and pray for a better day in the future. They also decided, I was told, that they would take every single opportunity they could find to kill the slave master, if possible, without getting caught.
Black folks, again, have 400 years of highly-developed instincts, especially those of us over the age of 70. Can these instincts actually take the form of paranoia? Certainly. In fact, we even joke about it. I once visited a Black doctor friend of mine when he worked at Bethany Hospital, in Chicago. He was paged, and when he arrived at the front desk, I greeted him, “My brother!! So, how are you??!!” He instantly replied with a very typical response in the Black community, “As Black and as paranoid as ever!! 😊
I am now going to quote, extensively, from my book, The Afrocentric Myth or Islam: The Liberator of the American People. The book was self-published, thirty years ago, under my Muslim name, Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin.
The role of the Spaniards
The first real mention of race as a biological and social issue is found in some Spanish writings of the sixteenth century. Soon after Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, Spanish exploration began. Spanish explorers, or conquistadors were looking primarily for gold and having no intention to digging it out of the earth, were looking to steal gold. This undertaking had tragic consequences for the Indians they encountered. The natives were either killed, enslaved, converted to Christianity or any combination of the three.
In Spain, a few scholars attempted to apologize for these atrocities by formulating the idea that perhaps New World natives were a different type of human being from the Conquistadors. This seems to be the first attempt to divide two human groups on biological grounds. The idea got almost nowhere in Spain for three reasons
First, for most of the fifteenth century, Spain had been trying to get rid of its African [Muslim] rulers, a job that was completed, coincidentally, in 149211. Prior to this expulsion many generations were produced from the union of North African and native Spaniards (Today there are only a few Spaniards without North African ancestry.) Since the idea of race was not advanced during the 700 years of occupation, it was difficult to find the idea plausible once the occupation was over.
Second, justifying the treatment of New World natives was necessary to avoid the disapproval of the Catholic Church. The Church was a powerful force in Spain at this time, especially since it had been instrumental in throwing out the Africans. The Pope felt that Native Americans should be converted to Christianity and afforded at least a minimum of human dignity.
The idea of race was advanced in an attempt to persuade the Church that Native Americans were sub-human and therefore of little concern. The Pope was not convinced. Missionaries were sent to the New World to both convert and protect the natives.
The third reason this trial balloon of racism failed was in the New World itself. Many Spanish soldiers never returned to Europe, but stayed in the New World. Many settlers soon followed. Average Spaniards saw no more difference between themselves and the New World natives than they had between themselves and the Africans back home. It is almost an axiom in anthropology that when two cultures meet they do not always bleed, but they do always breed. [UH, review the four pictures of the African-American, the Caucasian-American, the Asian, and the Indian (from India) women above. GOT IT??!!]
The Spanish and Indians were no exception. However, unlike the British and Dutch who were to follow, the Spaniards married their mates and raised their children. Later, when West Africans were imported, the same process occurred. It was not long until most of the residents of the Spanish New World were products of African-Spanish-Indian ancestry. The idea that one of their ancestors was biologically inferior to another was not popular with this group.
Although the Spaniards were the first to advance the idea of race, the concept was not widely accepted. Spain would not flirt with racism again until the early twentieth century. In the former Spanish colonies, racism is virtually unknown today.
The role of the British
After the Spanish experience, the idea of race did not appear until the late seventeenth century in England and Northern Europe. The impetus for the idea was much the same as in Spain two hundred years earlier. The English and Dutch were colonizing Africa and the New World at the expense of the natives. This time the idea caught on. There were three contributing factors that helped make racism more popular this time than it had been earlier in Spain:
The influence of the Catholic Church had been diminised by The Reformation. Protestant churches had displaced the powerful Catholic church in England and Northern Europe. The Catholic Church rejected the idea of race in the 1700s as it had in the 1500s12.
Most Protestant denominations were more flexible toward the concept [JESUS LOVES YOU!!!]Second was the influence of the new discipline of natural science. Scientists were just beginning to influence the public with their ideas that the world was knowable, definable, and quantifiable. Science was just beginnning to define the differences between flamingos and blue jays and this process lent credibility to the idea that there was also a difference between “Negroes” and “Caucasians.”
In spite of the fact that no two scientists could decide upon the same criteria, and that even the definitions of the terms were never agreed upon, natural science postulated the possibility that there could be physical differences between groups of human beings. Given the political and social situation of this place and time, the possibility was enough to support the concept.Third, England and Northern Europe were emerging from feudalism into a rigid class structured society. It became politically necessary to explain why a tiny fraction of the population inherited all the political and economic power while the mass of the population inherited poverty and despair. The idea that groups of people possessed biological traits that differed from other groups had immediate appeal as a way to justify the class system. To this day, economic stratification and pseudo scientific theories often work together to suppport racial concepts.
Cattle-raising, which previously had been left to herdsmen and peasants, was taken up by the British aristocracy. It became an obsessive interest that served as an expression of the new-found British opulence in its place as a world power. The names of Britain’s most distinguished families could be found in the records of the stock-breeding associations, such as the famous Smithfield Club.
Public shows of fattened oxen—the most famous being the Durham Ox, a giant, 3,000 pound bovine which was displayed throughout Britain on a nationwide tour—were conducted. The Smithfield Club, for instance, held its first public stock show in 1799. In fact the Smithfield Club Stock Show became one of the most important events in Britain, and even members of the royal family would attend.13
The obsession of the British aristocracy with cattle-rearing almost bordered on madness, as it led to the creation of two principal fetishes to which the royal gents became addicted: the physical appearances and the genealogy of their prized bovines. Popular agricultural magazines of the time described prize-winning Bovines in the manner that an amorous man might describe his bride-to-be.14
The number of hours spent by cattle breeders in determining the genealogy of their bovines seemed endless. Tracing a bovine’s lineage to ensure the “purity” of bloodlines was considered an indispensable part of refined cattle-breeding.
The British aristocracy based its own claim to its “natural” right of rank, privilege, and title, on the “royal” purity of its bloodline. This same idea influenced their cattle breeding practices to such an extent that the bovines were actually listed in registries (by name!) which provided detailed ancestral information that stretched back as far as anyone could remember. In this lineage there could be no “inferior blood” intervening or mixing, otherwise the bovine could not be of pure stock15
This obsession with pure blood among the aristocracy at home in Britain was imitated in the British colonies abroad. The newly discovered “science” of eugenics was used by people like Charles Darwin and his cousin, Sir Francis Galton, to champion the idea of race16
They argued that the superior “white,” or Aryan, race should not mix with the inferior, mongrel races as represented by the African people and other aboriginal “races” in the world. It was necessary—as was the case with the cattle-breeding fad—to assure that white people maintained their superior pure blood.
Between the sixteenth century Spanish attempt to establish race and the eighteenth century British obsession with cattle breeding came the Swedish Taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus who, in 1758, declared that humans fall into four races: white (Europeans), red (Native Americans), dark (Asians) and black (Africans). To Linnaeus, Africans were lazy and negletful, Native Americans were stuck in tradition, and the Europeans were creative, tender, and (of course!) superior.
Dear reader: I had much more to say about the history of race and racism in order to prove that, yes, the United States government has an unspoken foreign policy based, in large part, on the notion of racial superiority, sometimes “popularly” known as White supremacy. But, since world events are moving so fast, I decided to post this article as is, and as Part 1. I will continue, later, with a Part 2, and maybe a Part 3.
In the meantime, it’s becoming more and more of a challenge to keep up with the current event—the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, backed by the United States, in the U.S. support of the death-cult misnomered “Israel.” There is a part of me that thinks, “HECK!!! I don’t have to write a single WORD anymore to prove the theme of this article!!”
After all, right before the eyes of the entire world, the United States of America is proving—through the horses’s mouth, that is, the President of the United States, President Donald J. Trump, that, YES, racial supremacy is an intimate and STRONG part of the foreign policy of the United States. As the old-time Black preachers would put it, “And let the congreegation say,
I say “misnomered” because Jacob (called Yacoub, in Qur’an), whose name was changed, by God, to Israel, was a righteous Prophet of God. And, as a righteous Prophet of God, he would never have condoned, nor committed, genocide, as is being committed, right now, by the country that Mahmood OD, at his YouTube Channel, has labeled a Death Cult.
Racial slur for a Caucasian
Racial slur for Polish people
Racial slur for Jewish males
Racial slur for Italian individual
Racial slur for Hispanic people
Racial slur for Chinese people
Racial slur for Irish people
Racial slur for Blacks/African-Americans/Afro-Americans
Referring to the word “master.”
Muslim rule in Spain ended on January 2, 1492, when the last Muslim ruler, Boabdil, gave the keys to the Moorish capital to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. This marked the end of nearly 800 years of Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
It should be kept in mind, though, that, in the 1400s, Pope Nicholas V wrote two Papal Bulls, both of which approved of slavery. This lent religious justification to the idea of enslaving human beings. The two Papal Bulls were, Dum Diversas (1452) and Romanus Pontifex (1455).
Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987), 45-50
James Dickson, “On the Application of the Points by Which Livestock Are Judged,” Quarterly Review of Agriculture 6 (1835-1836), 269
Ritvo, 16-18
James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1985), 261