Hacker added that at the height of their numbers, whites made up 91 percent of the population, but this percentage has declined due to the influx of nonwhite immigrants and the declining reproduction rate of whites. This was intended to be a white country. This means that America was founded to be a racist country. Whiteness was to be the paramount characteristic. It's not that most whites are bigots or that they hate blacks, Hacker contends.
Racism is more subliminal than that.
Racism is about the question of whether people who come from the continent of Africa have the potential and the capacities that white people have. And, as whites, we take this for granted. Hacker contends that it's not only a matter of who's white, but who's allowed to be white. He continued his indictment. His presentation ended on a philosophical note.