The Concept of 'Western Culture' is rooted in racism

Hello, I see your points on the matter however I disagree. Yout first point I would like to address is Culture being a meta-narrative to promote hegemony for a racist basis. Culture is not an excuse for certain societies to be racist nor do I belive that the roots of Western Culture was portrayed that way. Culture is in fact the way a socieity functions and the daily activitites that effect their lives: economy, communication and heirarchy, etc. My point being it has a deeper meaning than what you portrayed. Secondly Culture in Western Society did have racist events such as slave ownership, however historians have found that free blacks; in the original 13 colonies did own black slaves as well. According to theroot.com in an article by Henry Louis Gates Jr." Nicholas Agustin Metoyer owned 13 slaves in 1830" it goes on to say " 48 blacks in Maryland owbed 143 slaves" Not to mention African cheiftans would sell their own kind to white merchants, "Modern day nigerian congress responds to letter from Nigerian Activist Groups, the ancestors of our past would help arab and white slave traders with raiding and haording defenseless villages the white man cannot be blamed any longer and will aid you with any civil unrest" amp.thegaurdian.com what im saying is if western culture has racist roots then it was promoted or infleunced by African traders as well, not to mention blacks owning slaves too, thus showing no truly self regulated racism. Thirdly You narrow things down to western cultures having racist roots. In the bible the isrealites were slaves to the arabs. The bible accounts of the earliest recorded foundation of slavery which shows that the middle east actually had a biased or discrimintory view on people with a racist foundation. My point is if the west has racist foundations then its becuase of other cultures interfering or interacting with our culture. The Bible that America belives in or African traders selling their own kind. Another point The idea of racism cannot soley be put on a western ideology as a white president had abolished slavery in the civil war, not to mention affirmative action for minoritites in jobs sectors and having rights for all: women, gay trans and colors. On your point that all western cultures have white people in common and since you're saying western cultures have racist cultural foundations it sounds like you're saying white poeple pre-dominally stem from a racist cultural background ,well I disagree with that point as well. The portugese took over the philipines in the 1700's and enslaved them for a short period and sought there culture superior to theirs and claimed them as "savages and gorillaz", the Rape of nanking by the japanese enslaving and killing chinese poeple by looking at the chinese as feeble compared to them, the bibles accounts of slaves in the middle east and even incans and mians would take indians from other tribes and would enslave them and kill them as well. My conclusion If America let free blacks own black slaves, African Cheiftans sold their own kind to white merchants, enslavement and racist culture was started elsewhere showing whites aren't the problem and that racism stems from many cultural backgrounds: Bible, Asia and Indians and that other nations had a actual earlier idea of racism before the idea of race was actually introduced then I can honestly I don't belive western culture has a racist roots.