The European Invention Called White People Explained (YouTube)
Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world.
So-called whiteness and the privilege it carries with it, is a powerful psychological invention. European elites invented this color caste system and it’s completely made up, but so is their invention called, blackness. When we use terms, such as, white and black, we are actually participating in casteism.
European colonists’ use of the word “white” to refer to people who looked like themselves, grew to become entangled with the word “race” and “slave” in the American colonies in the mid-1660s. These elites created “races” of “savage” Indians, “subhuman” Africans, and “white” men.
The social inventions succeeded in uniting the European colonists, dispossessing and marginalizing native people, and permanently enslaving most African descended people for generations. Tragically, American culture, from the very beginning, developed around the “ideas” of so-called, race and racism.
“When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.”
~Theodore W. Allen, American intellectual, writer, and activist
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Historical Foundations Of Race
Dr. Jacqueline Battalora is a writer, attorney and professor of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. She is the author of, Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today.
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