English Supremacism to White Supremacism: a transformation of convenience 

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By Mesfin Arega

Until recently, the term “white” as used by the English exclusively refers to the English and the English only, and did not include the French, the Italian or the Irish, let alone the Polish, the Ukrainian, or any other east European. Even the Scottish and the Welsh were not considered “white” by the English, Scotland and Wales being mere vassals, if not outright colonies of England. 

For instance, the United States was founded as a settler colonial state by the English for the English and, as such, had an unwritten law that only a man of English descent can be president.  The first Irish president of the US (John F. Kennedy) was elected in 1961, 185 years after the US was founded. Until then, the Irish were stereotyped as heavy drinkers and wanton criminals, job postings including “No Irish Need Apply” being quite common.  The Immigration Act of 1924 was introduced to drastically reduce immigration from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Italian Americans were the second largest group (after Black Americans) to be lynched by English supremacists. Suffice to mention one of the largest single mass lynchings in American history (the 1891 New Orleans lynching) whereby 11 Italians were viciously murdered by a mob for no crime other than being Italians.   

As Black resistance against English supremacism stiffens, the English supremacist was forced to make all Europeans his allies, especially the Irish and the Italians as well as other Southern and Eastern Europeans who were hitherto treated in some cases worse than Blacks.  To do so, the restriction on “white” was conveniently loosened to include all people of European descent, and the narration was changed from Blacks against English domination to Blacks against “white rule”.  

Italians were accepted in the “White League” only after Columbus Day was made a national holiday in 1934, that is, merely few decades after the worst mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans in 1891.  Such was the desperate need of the English supremacist for non-Black allies that, even Arabs (Western Asia) and pseudo-Arabs (Northern Africa) had to be made part of the “White” race under an artificially created, non-existent umbrella race called “Caucasian race”.  Interestingly, this so-called “Caucasian race” is also named Europid (Europoid) to imply the centrality of Europe for all supposed regions of this supposed race (Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa, and Horn of Africa).   

In their turn, the newly minted “whites” felt the need (rather were made to feel the need) to prove to the English supremacist that they deserve to be in his “white league”, explaining why the most vicious and vociferous white supremacists happen to be mostly from Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe as well as from Ireland.  In their zeal to prove their loyalty, these non-English Europeans became more supremacist than the English supremacist himself, sort of more catholic than the pope.  Non-Anglo-Saxon white Europeans are openly racist in America less to hurt Blacks but more to be noticed by the Anglo-Saxon.   

As for the other so-called non-Black “visible minorities” (Hispanics, Asians etc.), they are keenly aware that the American system is presently fully controlled by the Whiteman with the Englishman at the top. Therefore, to have any chance of economically benefiting from the system however slightly, these “visible minorities” have no other option but to fully align (rather pretend to align) with the Whiteman against the Blackman.  For instance, when these non-Black “visible minorities” enter the USA (legally or illegally), the first and foremost thing they instinctively learn (right at the airport or at the border crossing) is to openly show they are the antithesis of Blacks by “acting” overtly racist towards the same, especially using the “n” word indiscriminately and habitually.  

In this respect, the Indian is different from other non-Black “visible minorities”. As a direct product of the age-old caste system, the Indian sees the racist ordering of society in which the Whiteman is at the top, the Blackman at the bottom, and the Indian at the middle not only as normal but also as natural and, therefore, essential for the orderly progression of humanity.   For instance, when the former republican presidential candidate Nikky Haley said, “America has never been racist”, she was merely expressing her caste-conditioned belief that the ordering society according to assumed blood purity is not racism but a necessity.  

Nikky Haley’s assertion was preceded by a similar assertion by another caste-conditioned, subservience-prone Indian American, Mr. Dinesh D’Souza, who brazenly claimed that “the American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well”.  Effectively Mr. D’Souza told the whole world that he, Dinesh D’Souza himself, would love to be a property of the Whiteman.  And so do most, if not, all caste-conditioned, subservience-prone Indians.  No wonder why Indian Americans are Donald Trump’s preferred non-White choices for cabinet positions and other high-level appointments.   

In any case, in his life-and-death struggle with white supremacism, the Blackman’s primary focus should always be on his primary enemy, the English supremacist, realizing that non-English whites like east Europeans, let alone non-Black “visible minorities”, especially caste-conditioned, subservience-prone Indians, are mere distractions.  The entire white supremacist structure rests on the shoulder of the English supremacist and, therefore, if the Blackman dismantles the structures on which the English supremacist is helplessly dependent, English supremacism (and white supremacism spawned by English supremacism) would disappear overnight.  

The permanently opportunistic, inherently mean-spirited, despicably treacherous, disgustingly pretentious English supremacist is a deadly cancer to nature and humanity, directly or indirectly responsible for most, if not for all, major human and environmental ills in the world.  As such, ridding the supremacism from the English supremacist for good is as good as ridding an opportunistically and continually mutating deadly virus from a chronic cancer patient once and for all.         

The writer can be reached at : mesfin.arega@gmail.com 

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