The Three Pillars of White Supremacy

The Three Pillars of White Supremacy

Because I grow up in a country were all the population was white I needed to check the
actually definition of the white supremacy. If I will be asked to give a definition of the „ white
supremacy” in my own words I will describe it like this : the white supremacy means that
white people are superior to other races, I might think about black people but I will also think
of people from other countries (immigrants). Here is the actually definition that I find in the
dictionary: „the belif that white people are superior to those of all other races, especially the
black race, and should therefore dominate society” The last part of the definition „ and should
therefore dominate society, I am shocked! I read Andrea’s Smith article „the Three Pillar of
White Supremacy” three times because I couldn’t find an actually definition of the „white
supremacy”. Andrea’s Smith article is summarized in three parts : Slavery/ Capitalism;
Genocide/Capitalism and Orientalism/War. I knew from the History about the Slavery of the
Black people in United States but I also knew that ended long time ago. Reading in the article
about the Angola prisioners who are treated like slaves in our days is definitely a new
information for me. Now, I have more questions : how this can be possible in our century?
Who voted for this? Fom the history I know that the 13 Amendament abolished slavery in the
United States but after I am reading the amendament from the webbrowser. The 13
Amendment says: „ neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States,
or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Now I am starting to understand Andrea’s Smith
point of view about slavery. Andrea Smith mentions about the shift that is made from slavery
to the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex). The black people were reenslaved by the PIC (Prison
Industrial Complex). They became state proprety „the...

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