The Expediency of White Supremacism

In order to justify colonialism, an idea like white supremacy was needed. The concept that whites were chosen by God and superior to people of color, who were less intelligent, less deserving, and savage, was born out of this need.

White supremacy provided the political, social, and religious permission to claim lands not previously governed by “Christian” white people and to conquer, exterminate, and subjugate the allegedly inferior races found there.

The African slave trade and the brutality toward, indeed genocide of, the people inhabiting the Americas (and elsewhere) were…