Last night, I went to see the movie “Belle,” but it not
until this morning that I saw clearly what was bothering me. The Lord Chief
Justice of England was undoubtedly a man of great honor; however people like
him, his wife, the vicar’s son, and, of course, Belle and her father were a
serious threat to the established order. Their sense of decency in the face of
the unmitigated evil of the trans-Atlantic slave trade was beginning to infect
European society. So the Aryan Model was invented to replace the Ancient Model.
The Ancient Model had been handed down by the Ancient Greeks themselves to
explain the origin of their civilization: it had come from Africa. The Aryan
Model was the falsehood that the Ancient Greeks learned the ways of
civilization from the Aryan barbarians who swept down upon the Mediterranean at
the beginning of the first millennium B.C.E. (Before the Common Era). This
falsehood was invented to serve as the foundation for white supremacy.
In fact, one of the earliest official proclamations of the
new white supremacist doctrine was the clause in the U.S. Constitution which
affirmed Africans to be three-fifths human.
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