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White Privileged “Sicced” Supreme Court On Affirmative Action
The history of the belief of white privileged arrived on the shores of this country with the arrival of the Pilgrims in New England on November 11, 1620. It was then further enshrined in the U.S. Constitution in 1776 when Thomas Jefferson penned “all men are created equal.” Given the fact that Native Americans were labeled as savages and Black people had already been enslaved since 1619, Jefferson really meant that all white men, more so if they owned land, were created equal. […]
