Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations A continuing foundation: European colonization and imperialism eventually reached most of the globe and thus created a global racist order, which has had severe consequences for the worlds people now for centuries. The U.S. Constitution, which embraced slavery and imbedded the global racist order in the United States, remains the nations legal, political, and— to a substantial degree—moral foundation. Its openly racist provisions, though overridden by amendments, has not been deleted. At no point has a new constitutional convention been held to replace this document with one created by representatives of all the people, including the great majority of the population not represented at that the 1787 convention. Moreover, the racist spirit of the original document persists today. Even as they live in, and often maintain, a racist system, most white Americans still do not see slavery, legal segregation, or contemporary racism as part of the nations foundation. At the most, the majority see racist institutions as something in the distant pass, something tacked on to a great nation for a short time, and something nonsystematic. From their perspective the racism that may have once intruded into the American house is substantially been eradicated. RACIST AMERICA BY: JOE FEAGIN Joe Feagin moved to Boston where he went on to earn his Ph.D. in sociology (social relations) from Harvard University in 1966. Currently, he is the Ella C. McFadden Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.[1] His research and teaching interests concern mainly the development and structure of racial and gender prejudice and discrimination, especially institutional and systemic discrimination and racism.
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