Peter Simi is a Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and co-author of American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement's Hidden Spaces of Hate.
Where do white supremacy and racism come from in the US? Do these ideologies draw upon other belief systems? Is religion used to support them?
Well, there is a long history of these ideologies, and they’re deeply embedded in US society. The Republic was founded on the slaughter of “less civilized” indigenous peoples and the Three-Fifths Compromise, which treated Blacks as quite literally less than fully human. Slavery and the slaughter of indigenous peoples required [...]
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