【Ming Di】
Author: Shi Xiaohu (Special Researcher, Beijing Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
In the 245 years of independence, a ghost of white supremacy “racial superiority” has always wandered in the United States. It has continuously evolved with the genocide of Native Indians in the United States and the enslavement and oppression of black slaves, Chinese laborers and other colored people. It has not only deeply integrated into the American capitalist system, but also has become an important theoretical element of its foreign expansion. Although the new crown pneumonia epidemic has severely impacted the American economy and society, it has not prevented the further fermentation of the white supremacy theory of “racial superiority.” Human survival and development pose serious challenges. Resisting and suppressing the “ethnic superiority theory” of white supremacy has become the common task of the international progressive forces.
“Race superiority theory” has been integrated into the American system
The core of the white supremacy “racial superiority” is to maintain the exploitation and oppression of non-whites by whites, and to defend the system that safeguards white wealth, power, and privileges. Early whites who entered North America went to pursue equality, but they continued many injustices of the “old world“. It can be said that the birth and development of the United States was full of “blood and fire.” Thousands of native Indians were slaughtered, and a large number of black slaves and Chinese laborers were cruelly enslaved. In order to continue the white dominance, American founding politicians not only ideologically and psychologically “reformed” people of color, but also gradually incorporated racism theories into the construction of the national system, and promulgated the far-reaching “Slavery Code.” As a result, American history, national consciousness, society, and laws are marked with a deep white supremacy. Although the U.S. officials had to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964 to promote the elimination of social discrimination, the practice over the past 57 years has repeatedly shown that this kind of civil rights and equal rights is only a technical improvement, neither true nor strong. Its core feature is to say one thing. Set and do a set to confuse different classes, races and international society in the United States. Many white American elites know this well, but they are unwilling or afraid to conduct a deep self-dissection, and even turn a blind eye.
The racial problem in the United States under the background of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has become increasingly prominent. At the beginning of the outbreak, some American politicians claimed that the new crown virus only targets yellow races, and only yellow races will be infected. They did not carefully plan and promote epidemic prevention and control work, which quickly plunged the United States into an epidemic crisis. After the epidemic in the United States raged, some politicians not only unscrupulously made racist remarks, but also condoned all kinds of discriminatory words and deeds against Asians, seriously deteriorating the living environment of Asian Americans. Affected by factors such as wealth, status, and medical security mechanisms, the infection rate and death rate of African American and Hispanic citizens in the United States are higher than those of whites. In addition, during the epidemic, incidents of abuse of African Americans by white American policemen have also emerged one after another, and the voice of “I can’t breathe” has repeatedly appeared. These have further exacerbated the racial conflicts and social conflicts in the United States.
“Theory of racial superiority” endangers the survival and development of all mankind
The United States not only promotes racism at home, but also develops it into an ideology and further extends it into foreign policy. This makes the theory and practice of American foreign policy full of racism and civilizational clashes. In particular, some American politicians and scholars continue to promote and export their own ideological theories based on white supremacy in order to reshape the world order in favor of the United States, which has brought a series of serious disasters to the world. After the “September 11” incident, the U.S. official rudely combined nationalism with “patriotism,” and used anti-terrorism as an excuse to invade Afghanistan and carry out so-called democratic reforms in Afghanistan. Facts have proved that the United States’ strategy in Afghanistan is only for its own geographic interests, and this irresponsible behavior has been widely condemned by the international community. In order to find an excuse for using force against Iraq, the top US officials once demonstrated to the international community the “powerful” bulk “washing powder”. President Bush continued to defend the Iraq war, claiming that the war was initiated to defend the common civilization of the United States and Europe. But as early as 2009, Binghamton University professor James Peters pointed out that “the seven-year war and occupation of Iraq by the United States was promoted by several major political forces and influenced by various political interests.” “This war destroyed a civilization.” During the epidemic, US officials have a negative attitude towards international cooperation in the fight against the epidemic. In many developing countries where vaccines are “difficult to find”, they not only overbought and forced large amounts of anti-epidemic materials, but also stocked a large number of vaccines that exceeded actual needs. .
The United States has also introduced racism theories into the competition of different systems, and has even risen to the height of “clash of civilizations.” The fundamental reason is that the United States believes that history is over, and that the liberal capitalist order will still be the only choice despite many doubts and criticisms. However, the continuing severe crisis of capitalism has created a great sense of crisis in the United States, and has urged it to continuously change its international competitive thinking. . For example, the United States has been hostile to socialism for a long time. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it aimed its spearhead at China and continued to discredit and attack China’s socialist road. After socialism with Chinese characteristics has increasingly shown its vitality and vitality, and China’s core concepts and policies have been increasingly understood, recognized, and supported by the international community, the United States intends to elevate institutional competition to civilized competition in order to instigate a new wave of anti-China. In 2019, Kiren Skinner, then Director of the Policy Planning Department of the U.S. State Department, publicly clamored that the 20th century U.S.-Soviet struggle for hegemony was an internal struggle between different races within the same civilization, while the Sino-U.S. struggle belonged to subordination with the United States. Struggles between different civilizations and different ideologies that have not been encountered before. After the recent failure to promote the new Cold War and the establishment of the anti-China alliance, US officials still did not give up and conspired to convene a so-called “democracy summit” to cheer themselves up.
Resisting the “ethnic superiority theory” brooks no delay
White supremacy “racial superiority” is a cancer that affects the development of human society. The hazard of this cancer goes far beyond the borders of the United States. It not only spreads ideologically to every corner of the world, but also spreads to every country in the world through American expansionism, thereby seriously endangering the development of the “global village” and the process of global governance. It should be noted that some American politicians, dressed in the cloak of humanity, freedom, democracy, and civilization, are engaged in racist activities, which are hypocritical, concealed, and deceptive. However, the white supremacy theory of “racial superiority” has never been separated from its origins, and its harm has become clear, and it has been collectively condemned by all progressive forces in the world. For example, Rosamund S. King, an associate professor at the City University of New York, pointed out that Trump suggested that Asians and Asian Americans are not only responsible for the spread of the new crown virus, but may also be the initiators of the virus. There is no evidence for this statement. His use of the term “Chinese virus”, just as he referred to anti-racism protesters as “thugs” and “scumbags,” is part of the racism and white supremacy he preached.
In view of the fact that the “racial superiority theory” has penetrated into the American system, the international community must reach a consensus on resisting the “racial superiority theory” of white supremacy and form a broad counter-force. On the one hand, the domestic progressive forces in the United States must stand up more, continue to criticize the white supremacy concept and system design, further educate the American people, and gather the anti-racist internal forces in the United States; on the other hand, the international community, especially the progressive forces, must also Adhere to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, advocate the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom for all mankind, jointly oppose the hypocritical American domestic and foreign policies based on racism, and cooperate to resist and suppress negative American factors in global governance, and promote construction A better world.
“Guangming Daily” (version 12 on August 25, 2021)
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