White Superiority Production
*For purposes of this article, “white superiority”, or “white supremacist”, is also meant to include mysogyny, homophobia, sexism, bigotry, and white nationalism. I’m thinking about the men whose task it was to write the new laws for this country. From scratch. We were finally splitting from the British. Yay! We had the opportunity to create whatever we wanted. To make the rules. Have it our way. It is also true that most of the founding fathers were slave owners. It’s hard to fathom, with today’s brain, how human beings could look at another human being as their “property”, and consider that normal. Slaves were thought of as less than human. Or, at the least, humans who were “less than” enough to justify treating this most inhumane way. This was the societal baseline at the time of the founding. For some, it still is. But, it wasn’t like today, where some white people may walk around with a vague sense of their standing in the world’s pecking order ...