Essay On White Supremacy

White supremacy was created based on the belief that white people are more superior people of color and for this reason, the while people believe that they are supposed to be dominate race amongst the other races. Though started a couple of centuries ago, this notion continues to dominate today. Because of white supremacy, the white people are now believed to be better and more powerful than people of color, especially the blacks. However, regardless of the dominance of this concept in different cases, the origin of white supremacy remains unknown to many people. Among other arguments surrounding the origin of white supremacy, is that it developed as a means of maintaining ruling class domination. This paper argues that white supremacist racism …show more content…
However, the concept of white supremacy was created to protect the European settlers against the non-European people, such as the Native Americans. According to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, more than half of the people who moved to European nations during the early colonial period were majorly servants. During this time, elite of planters had been established in the southern colonies. However, the white settlers were outnumbered by the non-whites. As a result, the issue of controlled became huge and fear of revolt from below grew immensely among the white rich families. Notably, the white elites feared that dissatisfied whites such as soldiers, tenant farmers, servants as well as the property-less would join the black slaves in overthrowing the prevailing order. The Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 rubberstamped the ruling class fears of a rebellion. The rebellion shook the white ruling class. The Bacon's Rebellion was followed by other rebellions. Following the rebellions, the key fear among the elite became class fear. The class fear is what led to the formation of White supremacy as a solution. This concept would help the white elite to divide and control the blacks and other people of