So what of this thing called “White Superiority?”

“The belief of white superiority has been part of the United States since its inception. The white European imperialists who settled here believed they were inherently superior to nonwhite groups. These beliefs justified atrocities like the genocide of Native Americans and nearly 250 years of African slavery. After slavery, white supremacist ideologies manifested into a series of laws that would limit the freedom of African Americans, known as Black Codes and Jim Crow. White supremacy and its legacy can still be found in our legal system and other institutions through coded language and targeted practices. “

Smithsonian Museum Article
For their Black History Display

Let’s be clear here. When we speak about ontology all races are created equal in the sense of all men, regardless of race, being the Imago Dei. From the Orientals of Asia, to the Ndebele, Xhosa, Shona, and Zulu of black Africa, to the brown man of India and South Africa, to the white man of Europe, all races of men, considered ontologically are Image Bearers and so are equal in that regard and will always remain equal. Man qua man will never be able to strip himself of being an image bearer of God.

However, when we speak about the taxonomic value of races as a matter of comparison there can be no doubt that for the past 1500 years or so that the White race, as it as been shaped by the Christian faith, has been clearly without dispute superior. When the White man showed up on these shores the Native Americans were not the noble savage that the Romanticist worldview desires to create. No, the Native Americans were serving gods who delighted in the pain that their servants could inflict on their captives. The Native Americans were in may cases cannibals. The Native Americans were treating their women like pack mules. Now, to be sure some Native American tribes were less monstrous than other tribes but they were all clearly inferior to the Christian White man. The same is true of the savage black brought from Africa. Taxonomically speaking the White man was clearly superior. The white man was sailing the seas, building cathedrals, developing complex legal and social orders, building inventions that were stupendous, and exploring and discovering lands so that trade routes could connect continents with the effect that the Christian Gospel traveled along these trade routes to bring the good news of Jesus Christ and Him crucified to the taxonomically and comparatively backward people of other lands.

Where the legal system of White men was superior to the “legal systems of the non-Caucasian” they were superior because those legal systems were based on God’s law.

None of this is to say that the white man was without sin. It is merely to say that the Christian white man was superior, and often remains superior to men who are the suppliants of other inferior gods who leave them as inferior as the wastrel gods they serve.

So, ontologically all men were and are created equal but when it comes to the taxonomies of the various races there can be no doubt that by God’s grace alone the White man has been superior. The White man just needs to get used to that idea and quit apologizing for their taxonomic superiority and remain humble by reminding themselves that it is only the God of the Bible who has caused us to be superior.

We would also do well to remember that to whom much is given much will be required.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane