Editing White supremacy (section)

===British Commonwealth ===
{{Further|Racial views of Winston Churchill}}
There has been debate whether [[Winston Churchill]], who was voted "the greatest ever Briton" in 2002, was "a racist and white supremacist".<ref name="Heyden" /> In the context of rejecting the Arab wish to stop [[Aliyah|Jewish immigration]] to [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], he said:
<blockquote>I do not admit that the [[The Dog in the Manger|dog in the manger]] has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race or at any rate a more worldly-wise race ... has come in and taken their place."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-4BbDwAAQBAJ&q=andrew+roberts+dog+in+the+manger&pg=PR106|title=Churchill: Walking With Destiny|last=Roberts|first=Andrew|date=2018|publisher=Allen Lane|isbn=978-0-241-20564-8|location=London|pages=414–15|author-link=Andrew Roberts (historian)|access-date=12 May 2021|archive-date=March 7, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240307150158/https://books.google.com/books?id=-4BbDwAAQBAJ&q=andrew+roberts+dog+in+the+manger&pg=PR106|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>

British historian [[Richard Toye]], author of ''Churchill's Empire'', concluded that "Churchill did think that white people were superior."<ref name="Heyden">{{cite news|first=Tom|last=Heyden|title=The 10 greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29701767|work=BBC News|date=January 26, 2015|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122120902/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29701767|url-status=live}}</ref>

====South Africa====
{{Further|Apartheid|Baasskap}}
A number of Southern African nations experienced severe racial tension and conflict during global [[decolonization]], particularly as [[white Africans of European ancestry]] fought to protect their preferential social and political status. Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under the [[Dutch Empire]]. It continued when the British took over the [[Cape of Good Hope]] in 1795. [[Apartheid]] was introduced as an officially structured policy by the [[Afrikaners|Afrikaner]]-dominated [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]] after the [[South African general election, 1948|general election of 1948]]. Apartheid's legislation divided inhabitants into four racial groups — "black", "white", "coloured", and "Indian", with coloured divided into several sub-classifications.<ref>Baldwin-Ragaven, Laurel; London, Lesley; du Gruchy, Jeanelle (1999). ''An ambulance of the wrong colour: health professionals, human rights, and ethics in South Africa.'' Juta and Company Limited. p. 18</ref> In 1970, the Afrikaner-run government [[Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act, 1968|abolished non-white political representation]], and starting that year [[black people]] were deprived of South African citizenship.<ref>John Pilger (2011). "Freedom Next Time". p. 266. Random House</ref> South Africa abolished apartheid in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |title = abolition of the White Australia Policy |url = http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/08abolition.htm |publisher = Australian Government |date = November 2010 |access-date = October 13, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060901105340/http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/08abolition.htm |archive-date = September 1, 2006  }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/555568/South-Africa/259494/The-apartheid-years | title = Encyclopædia Britannica, South Africa the Apartheid Years | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica | access-date = October 13, 2011 | archive-date = October 28, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111028155947/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/555568/South-Africa/259494/The-apartheid-years | url-status = live }}</ref>

====Rhodesia====
In [[Rhodesia]] a predominantly white government issued its own [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence|unilateral declaration of independence]] from the United Kingdom in 1965 during an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to avoid majority rule.<ref name="africapolitics">{{cite book|last=Gann|first=L.H.|title=Politics and Government in African States 1960–1985|pages=162–202}}</ref> Following the [[Rhodesian Bush War]] which was fought by [[African nationalism|African nationalists]], Rhodesian prime minister [[Ian Smith]] acceded to biracial political representation in 1978 and the state achieved recognition from the United Kingdom as [[Zimbabwe]] in 1980.<ref name="zimstudy">{{cite book|last=Nelson|first=Harold|title=Zimbabwe: A Country Study|pages=1–317}}</ref>