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The United States and South Africa: The Yin and Yang of White Supremacy
A brief look at white America vs. white South Africa
Racism (white supremacy) is the local and global power system dynamic, structured and maintained by those who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined. This system consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity: economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war.
The ultimate purpose of the system is to ensure white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on earth — a planet in which the overwhelming majority of people are classified as non-white (black, brown, red, and yellow) by white-skinned people. All of the non-white people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic-recessive white skinned people.
— Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, 1974
Jon Jeter over at Black Agenda Report has done a great service by providing a sorely needed, if condensed, history of South Africa and the US — at least that history since European interlopers' leaky ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope and limped into Cape Harbor seeking “refuge” from a…
