![]() Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Yet to focus upon the Negro alone as the "inferior race" of American myth is to miss the broader dimensions of the evil. ![]() The prejudice has been nourished by the doctrine of race inferiority. The strands of prejudice toward Negroes are tightly wound around the American character. ![]() As a beginning it is important to X-ray our history and reveal the full extent of the disease. ![]() The surgery to extract it is necessarily complex and detailed. “For too long the depth of racism in American life has been underestimated. ![]()
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