Mills's Social Contract

Mills believes the social contracts goes beyond a “blindness” society. He criticizes Rawl’s concept of a social contract, as he believes race is an important part of how the members of such contract is established. Mills believes our society only sees white male individuals as “full human beings” and anything other than that are “less” humans and therefore nor worthy of the benefits of the social contract. He believes we are sold in the idea our founding fathers established on the constitution, where “every man is treated equal.” However, non-white people, along with women are treated less than their counterpart white male and does not enjoy the benefits of equal treatment. While we think race is something fairly new, and people have beginning
to identify themselves are other than whites, the new racial values is new to our society. I believe to a certain degree this is incorrect. From ancient times, people tend to identify themselves with other people with similar backgrounds. Even in ancient times, people would be more lenient to individuals when encountered them on far lands if they were to have the same or similar background. I do believe the concept of racial integration is fairly new and the topic of races are brought up more than ever. I do feel Rawls purpose was to try and eliminate the way people are treated regardless of who they are, race included. However we have hundred of years of history of slavery, perception of non-white people and women to be “less than” white man, it is a complicated process to achieve.