Editing Racism (section)

=== Supremacism ===
{{Main|Supremacism}}
[[File:1899BalanceCartoon.jpg|thumb|right|In 1899 [[Uncle Sam]] (a personification of the United States) balances his new possessions which are depicted as savage children. The figures are Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Cuba, Philippines and "Ladrones" (the [[Mariana Islands]]).]]

Centuries of [[European colonialism]] in the Americas, Africa and Asia were often justified by [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] attitudes.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Takashi |last1=Fujitani |first2=Geoffrey Miles |last2=White |first3=Lisa |last3=Yoneyama |title=Perilous memories: the Asia-Pacific War(s) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ltm9hv0_4A0C&pg=PA303 |year=2001 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8223-2564-2 |page=303}}</ref> During the early 20th century, the phrase "[[The White Man's Burden]]" was widely used to justify an [[Imperialism|imperialist]] policy as a noble enterprise.<ref>{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Stuart Creighton |title=Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899–1903 |date=1984 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |isbn=978-0-300-03081-5 |page=5 |quote=...&nbsp;imperialist editors came out in favor of retaining the entire archipelago (using) higher-sounding justifications related to the "white man's burden".}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=In Our Pages: 100, 75 and 50 Years Ago; 1899: Kipling's Plea |newspaper=[[International Herald Tribune]] |date=4 February 1999 |at=p. 6 col 6 |url=https://archive.org/details/InternationalHeraldTribune1999FranceEnglish/Feb%2004%201999%2C%20International%20Herald%20Tribune%2C%20%2336056%2C%20France%20%28en%29/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater |via=Internet Archive Digital Library}}{{void|comment|also at https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/04/opinion/04iht-edold.t_10.html (subscription required)}} : Notes that Rudyard Kipling's new poem, "The White Man's Burden", "is regarded as the strongest argument yet published in favor of expansion".</ref> A justification for the policy of conquest and subjugation of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] emanated from the stereotyped perceptions of the indigenous people as "merciless Indian savages", as they are described in the [[United States Declaration of Independence]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Out West |date=2000 |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |page=96}}</ref> Sam Wolfson of ''[[The Guardian]]'' writes that "the declaration's passage has often been cited as an encapsulation of the [[dehumanizing]] attitude toward indigenous Americans that the US was founded on."<ref>{{cite news |title=Facebook labels declaration of independence as 'hate speech' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/facebook-declaration-of-independence-hate-speech |access-date=7 August 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329055724/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/facebook-declaration-of-independence-hate-speech |archive-date=29 March 2024}}</ref> In an 1890 article about colonial expansion onto Native American land, author [[L. Frank Baum]] wrote: "The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/baumedts.htm |title=L. Frank Baum's Editorials on the Sioux Nation |access-date=9 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209193251/http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/baumedts.htm |archive-date=9 December 2007}} Full text of both, with commentary by professor A. Waller Hastings</ref> In his ''[[Notes on the State of Virginia]]'', published in 1785, [[Thomas Jefferson]] wrote: "blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time or circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both body and mind."<ref>{{cite news |title=Fact check: Quotes from prominent American statesmen on race are accurate |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-quotes-statesmen-race-idUSKBN2471YA |date=6 July 2020 |access-date=8 December 2022 |publisher=[[Reuters]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411060303/https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-quotes-statesmen-race-idUSKBN2471YA |archive-date=11 April 2023}}</ref> Attitudes of [[black supremacy]], [[Arab supremacy]], and [[Sinocentrism|East Asian supremacy]] also exist.