The term is pejorative of course. Historically there has been racism and tribalism since the beginning. Of hundreds of hominids and proto-human species, human beings as they are now is the sole survivor.
European history had an age of colonization that followed about a thousand years of Mongols, Arabs and Turks invading Europe. Human slavery was ubiquitous across all races in one form or another until the past thousand years more or less.
In the United States the Democrat Party was the party of slavery. Republicans with their first President elected; Abraham Lincoln, ended it. Confederate survivors in the aftermath formed the KKK and reinvented slavery as convict labor that continued until the 1920s in the south. The Democrat Party of the post-war south was the Jim Crow party. Following the civil war, southern Democrats were not trusted in the White House before Jimmy Carter. They were regarded as the white supremacist party. The late Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts strongly disliked Jimmy Carter and ran against him in 1980. John F. Kennedy was a northern Democrat who brought non-WASPs and other minorities into the Democrat Party in 1960.
The term white supremacy is pejorative as I said, for all races have tried and still try to dominate or assert themselves too much. It depends on who the press favors for political correctness at any given time. The majority of the people are probably more or less racially tolerant if their economic interests aren’t threatened. Social stability and less use of adverse social methods within an enlightened ecological, economically sustainable world for all people, is the goal now I suppose. Rational environmental use while keeping civil rights and freedom for individuals intact will be challenging in the next century.
European history had an age of colonization that followed about a thousand years of Mongols, Arabs and Turks invading Europe. Human slavery was ubiquitous across all races in one form or another until the past thousand years more or less.
In the United States the Democrat Party was the party of slavery. Republicans with their first President elected; Abraham Lincoln, ended it. Confederate survivors in the aftermath formed the KKK and reinvented slavery as convict labor that continued until the 1920s in the south. The Democrat Party of the post-war south was the Jim Crow party. Following the civil war, southern Democrats were not trusted in the White House before Jimmy Carter. They were regarded as the white supremacist party. The late Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts strongly disliked Jimmy Carter and ran against him in 1980. John F. Kennedy was a northern Democrat who brought non-WASPs and other minorities into the Democrat Party in 1960.
The term white supremacy is pejorative as I said, for all races have tried and still try to dominate or assert themselves too much. It depends on who the press favors for political correctness at any given time. The majority of the people are probably more or less racially tolerant if their economic interests aren’t threatened. Social stability and less use of adverse social methods within an enlightened ecological, economically sustainable world for all people, is the goal now I suppose. Rational environmental use while keeping civil rights and freedom for individuals intact will be challenging in the next century.
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