The U.S., about to celebrate its 250 birthday, was founded by white male supremacists. They were the leaders of the colonies, either via the British government or local residents, who were also British.
This was the way society was set up across Europe and the colonies at the time.
Meanwhile blacks were often consider property, captured from their African homes and bought and sold like any any other property. American hero Thomas Jefferson had a breeding/marketing program.
The second person killed in the run up to the Revolution was free man Crispus Attucks, a multi-racial sailor of negro and Indian ancestry. The first was an 11 year-old boy. Attucks was shot at what became known as the Boston Massacre, five years before the Battle of Lexington, which will be celebrated this spring.
The attitude toward blacks can be seen through writings even until today.
Lynchings were common for far too long. Segregation was considered normal. It took a Constitutional amendment to allow blacks to vote, and even today, restricting voting rights by redistricting is ramped in some states.
What most whites don't realize when it comes to humans on earth, whites do not outnumber other races.
When one class of people are subjugated for reasons of race (and gender) everyone loses whatever contributions to society.
Does everyone contribute to society? Of course not.
Some hurt society, not just the robber in the slums. Some of the billionaires, who are white and have much too much influence, do great damage to society as a whole no matter what their product is.


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