![]() To English philosopher, John Locke (1690), property is the means by which humans relate to God and to each other. Not surprisingly, Christianity provided owners of property with the first intellectual justification for European racism. In this equation, rulers were landlords ruled were landless and unfree.Īfter Rome adopted Christianity as the official religion of the Empire in the fourth century, landlords eagerly embraced the new religion as a tool of class domination. Property in today’s context includes real estate, industrial and precious minerals, banks, insurance companies, stocks, bonds, trust funds, cartels and other assets.Īccording to Aristotle (384-322 BCE), one of Greece’s best known ancient philosophers, some men are born to rule others are born to be ruled. The ideology of global white supremacy was constructed on three fundamentals: (a) the primacy and control of property (b) the European version of Christianity (c) ubiquitous symbols of white power. ![]() White supremacy is the presumption that the white nations of Western Europe and their Diasporas have a special, even divine right, to rule the world and control the world’s resources. Kaffee screams: “I want the truth!” Jessup shouts back contemptuously: “You can’t handle the truth!” Photo: Colonel Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson, delivers his memorable tirade during classic movie, A Few Good Men. In a dramatic court scene, US Navy lawyer Lt Kaffee (Tom Cruise) seeks to extract admission of a war crime from Col Jessup (Jack Nicholson). In saying so, I am reminded of the 1992 film, ‘A Few Good Men’. In this article, I look at the origin of white supremacy. In order to exterminate a disease, pathologists must understand its origin, form and structure, because it is the nature of pathogens to morph into new and more deadly forms. The current anti-racism global protests is unprecedented, but we should not deceive ourselves that a few capitulations-however significant, by some custodians of white supremacy-would lead to the complete eradication of the disease.
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