Modern racialized politics devalues democratic ideals and divides people based on the colour of their skin
to supply the human cargo needed by the plantations of the Caribbean and later North America. Aborigines in Australia were considered — as thesuggested in 1826 — a “savage and vindictive race,” whose neolithic culture justified conquest and subjection to a “superior” western culture.
The legacy of slavery and displacement certainly weighs heavily against the remarkable advances towards democracy and the rule of law in western societies. It tarnishes the American republic’s founders, who tolerated slavery even as they laid out the essential liberal view of governance or even benefited from it directly . In ensuing decades, the country was almost torn apart by slavery, the elimination of which required a monumental effort.
By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, racism became enmeshed with a form of pseudo-scientific inquiry, which reached its apotheosis with the rise of Nazism. Breaking with the Kantian notion of a common humanity, the German Reich sought to establish what historians Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann described as a “barbaric utopia” based entirely on ethnic hierarchies.
Collective guilt has evolved into a canon for progressive intellectuals dating back to books like Andrew Hacker’s 1992.” More critically, this is also the approach taken by leading Black intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cornel West, who seem to be as worried about acting “white” and integrating into a society they treat with suspicion as they are with finding pragmatic ways to improve outcomes in the classroom, marketplace and workplace.
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