Essay On White Supremacy

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However, I have noticed in the multicultural counseling class that there was more information. White Supremacy is a concept that was not fully explained to me during high school or middle school. White supremacy depicts power, a group that claims everything for themselves through making a system that works for themselves. In a sense, White supremacy is a system that defends those with wealth and power. Also, White supremacy consists of white supremacist that tend to look up to those of wealth, power, and that “stand up for our country”. Before this class, I once heard the term White Supremacy but did not know exactly what it meant till now. In addition, before the multicultural counseling class, I did not know KKK or white supremacist group still exist. In high school, my teacher depicted that KKK was a group from the past. However, I recently learned there are still supporters of White supremacy through multiple organizations. Additionally, White supremacy has replaced God and has made themselves God. Many White supremacists believe he or she is …show more content…
However, to me, the multicultural counseling course depicts Manifest Destiny as a horrific story. Manifest Destiny was never really written down and it is not in the constitution. In a way, the Manifest Destiny was used to justify colonization of America. The Europeans believed that Indians were not Christian and, therefore, did not have the right to land. Both George Washington and Jefferson believed that Indians should be driven out of the territory. The Doctrine of Discovery became the Manifest Destiny limiting tribal property rights and tribal sovereign rights. Also, the Europeans believed they were superior and had a mission to remake the world in their own image. Manifest Destiny itself is a doctrine of White supremacy in the sense that nonwhite was not allowed to possess the permanent

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