White Supremacy and the Assignment of Color

Abraham Lincoln knew all too well about the assignment of the superior position of the white race by virtue of the assignment of the color white to human bodies.

“…and inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” — Abraham Lincoln

A while back, I wrote an essay entitled, “White Supremacy, White Superiority and The Value in the Colors of Black and White.” In it I discussed the intrinsic value placed on the colors, “black” and “white” and the meanings and connotations that existed both inside and outside of the ideology of White Supremacy. In my book, “White Supremacy and the Post-Racial Color Blind Era: Exploring Visible and Invisible Whiteness in the United States — An Unbleached Unbook Look,” I went even further in discussing the apparent importance, made by the wealthy and powerful of color distinctions on human bodies, as part of an overarching definition of superiority and inferiority, and the…