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white supremacy

Noun

Meaning

The ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.

A situation in which white people are privileged over other people in society.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all. Charles B. Rangel

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. Stokely Carmichael

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. Cornel West

This means people of every race, ethnicity and religion can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed. It means the very identity of our nation depends on the passing of civic ideals to the next generation. George W. Bush

The real crime of white supremacy was not that it put up statues, or even that it made speeches, but that it attacked citizens and passed laws. Allen C. Guelzo

White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith. James A. Forbes

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