White Supremists In The 19th Century

Many white Christians have believed in being racially and religiously dominate since the early 1000s. Globalization has spread through European colonization, leading to the expansion of white supremacy, along with racial and religious discrimination towards Muslims, Jews, Asians, and Africans in Western societies. White people have used multiple forms of segregation including the Nuremburg law in Germany during the 1930s-1940s, the Jim Crow laws in the southern United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and Apartheid in South Africa in the mid to late 1900s. The goal of this essay is to identify the reasons for white supremist using discrimination and oppression against Jews, Asians, Muslims, and Africans during the 1000s leading
up to modern times.
Muslims believe that Christianity and Judaism are offshoot religions of Islam, therefore being ‘people of the book’. Muslims use many of the Jewish and Christian scriptures as ‘foundational texts for Islam’. Both the Muslims and Western people view each other as barbaric, and are groups of people wanting to conquer other religions. Modernist Muslims do not support the idea of a liberal democracy. They believe liberalism involves possessive individualism and creates selfishness. In the post-9/11 era, many in the Western society fear Muslims and debate whether Muslim immigrants will bring violence to the West. This fear has been forming since 2001, caused by the bombing of the World Trade Center, along with continuous terrorist bombings, shootings and other forms of violence in France, England, and the United States.
In 1543, Martin Luther stated that Jews are vindictive, assassins, bitter, and children of the devil.
He believed that Christians must not tolerate Jewish actions and beliefs, so Christians must burn down their schools, synagogues, houses, Talmudic writings, and prayer books, to honor Christianity and God. During the 1st and 2nd Crusades in 1095-96 and 1145-46, the Europeans attacked the Jews rather than traveling East towards the enemies of God because many of the Jews lived in Europe. The Christian Europeans believed that they needed to attack the enemies of God, and no religion was considered more hostile towards God, than the Jews. Throughout European history, Jews were continuously persecuted such as England in 1290, France in 1394, Germany in 1509, Hungary in 1526, and Genoa and Venice in 1550. Jews were blamed for causing the Black Death in the 1340s, resulting in 20,000 being murdered. In Holland, Germany, and the surrounding areas, a ‘demonically possessed dancers’ movement began and was blamed on the Jews, resulting in thousands being killed. In 1555, the Papal Decree required Jews to be segregated into designated ‘ghettos’ and were forced to wear yellow veils and badges. In the mid-1900s, Hitler believed that anti-Semitism was based on biological race instead of ethnicity or religion. His anti-Semitic beliefs were still influenced by the ancient beliefs that Jews are children of the Devil. The evil they represented is in both their soul and body. Germany
created a system of segregation called the Nuremburg laws, which was similar to apartheid and the Jim Crow Laws, but much more extreme. Jews were denied access to all public transportation, curfews were imposed in the Jewish communities, children could not attend school, they could not possess property, and they were denied the right to operate businesses. In the late 1930s, Jews were forced into internment and concentration camps. All non-Aryans were required to follow the laws of segregation, not just the Jews. Handicaps and Gypsies were also categorized with Jews. Hitler wanted to purify the Germany, by getting rid of and sterilizing any people that are not from pure German descent.
In 1919, the General Syrian Congress denied permission for the Zionists to establish a Jewish state in Palestine and opposed the immigration of any Jews to Syria. In 1922, the Zionists believed that the Arab and Jewish people could live together with mutual respect and unity. The Arabs feared that their culture, language and population would disappear with the creation of the Jewish state. In 1939, England created the White Paper. This mandate announced the establishment of a National Jewish State in Palestine, which was established without the Arab population’s permission.
African racism first began in the middle of the fifteenth century, when Europeans pictured martyrs and devils as having dark skin. The color black was symbolically viewed as death and evil, while white was purity and goodness. Europeans believed God created two footed beasts including apes and Africans, which categorized them as racially inferior. White supremacy in South Africa intensified between 1910 and the 1980s. South Africa established Apartheid, which was a system of segregation between white and black people. Apartheid made sexual relations and inter-racial marriage between white and black South Africans outlawed in 1948. The two groups were also required to live in separate residential locations, causing separation between inter-racial families. In America, Africans have been treated racially inferior since the beginning of slavery, starting with the Columbian Exchange and Atlantic Slave Trade from 1500-1800. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court verified in the Dred Scott Case that Africans are ordinary pieces of merchandise that are purchased. Blacks were never intended to be considered ‘citizens’ in the Constitution. At the end of the Civil War in 1865, slavery was abolished, and black lynching’s started to increase dramatically by white-supremist. Southern Reconstruction ended in 1896, leading to the rise of segregation and the Jim Crow laws in the South. The 1896 U.S. Supreme Court Case, Plessy vs. Ferguson, concluded that segregation is constitutional if facilities are created ‘separate but equal’. This caused segregation in public facilities, buses, education and restricted black voting rights. In the 1960s, Africans protested for equal rights in the Civil Rights Movement. The movement was successful in outlawing racial segregation in the South. This dramatically improved black rights in the U.S., although some people continue to believe in white supremacy. Blacks in the modern day continue to struggle for full equality in careers, salaries, prison, and social equality. Post-9/11 has had a negative impact on the black community in America. There is an increasing amount of black men being put in the U.S. prison system, along with increasing amounts of racists shootings, white police brutality, social tensions, and racists reactions towards Barack Obama winning the U.S. presidency.
In the 1880s, Americans feared labor competition as the number of Asian immigrants increased, causing anti-Chinese movements. U.S. citizens disliked poor immigrants because they were viewed as dependent on America, and were immoral and lazy. In 1942, America stopped allowing immigration from specific demographic locations including Asia and Eastern Europe, to allow the United States demographics to become mainly white protestants from Western and Northern Europe. They did not want any immigrants of Jewish, Eastern, Asian or Italian descent. During World War II, the U.S. isolated and placed thousands of Japanese descendants into internment camps, who were viewed as a threat to the country and could possibly be spies.
Globalization has been used to spread and exchange inventions, information, beliefs, cultures and diseases.
All world webs involve competition and cooperation. People must cooperate by using communication to share ideas and beliefs. The larger a web gets, the more power, inequality and wealth there is causing competition to be the most successful person. In the late 1900s and early 2000s, globalization has spread anti-Semitism globally to the United States, France, several eastern European countries, and Germany. Many hate groups in these countries continue to support Hitler’s ideology towards Jews and are against the creation of the State of Israel. People continue to destroy Jewish cemeteries, and paint swastikas on synagogues. Another example of globalization is the English colonization of the Americas and South Africa. Until the late 1900s, white supremacy has dictated the rights and freedoms of black people causing the use of slavery and segregation of the South. The southern United States established the Jim Crow laws and South Africa established Apartheid, which are both forms of segregation. Globalization relates to racial and religious identity issues because of European colonization of Africa and the Americas. European colonization has caused the spread of racial beliefs that started in Europe such as anti-Semitism, along with racist beliefs against Islam and
Africans.
Beliefs of Christian dominance and White superiority have caused racial discrimination against blacks, Arabs, and Asians, and religious discrimination against Muslims and Jews in Western societies. Since the mid-fifteenth century, white people have believed that white skin is pure while blacks are associated with evil and being beasts. Jews have also been viewed as children of the Devil because of their differing views from Christianity. Arabs, Asians, and Muslims have also been discriminated because of their varying cultures and beliefs, causing whites to believe they are racially inferior. Racial and religious equality have improved since the Holocaust in the 1930-40s, the Civil Rights Movement in the 1980s, but there has been an increase in fear towards Muslims in the post-9/11 era. Learning about these topics and findings are important because they help people learn from their past mistakes, to prevent history from repeating itself. For example, learning about the terrible actions of the Nazi’s in the Holocaust, by mass murdering and torturing Jews, can help end the repetitive historical persecution of Jews in Europe, and end the beliefs of anti-Semitism. Racial and religious discrimination have continuously occurred throughout the Western society, due to the lack of knowledge of scientific evolution, which can prove that all races are equally evolved.