Racial Contract Research Paper

The Racial Contract is the understanding that racism is not the side effect of malicious men in society, but rather the realization that racism is at the very core of society. The heart of the “Social Contract” itself. The explicit underground agreement between the tribes of Europe to promote whiteness, in the form of conquering, and subjugating those who do not belong to the peoples of Europe. This Contract running side by side with time for the latter part of a thousand years. Paying witness to the discovery of the new world, and the removal and genocides of “savages” from their ancestral lands.
This contract is the tool used to justify the past horrors of the “new” frontiers, by actively claiming that no people exist in these “new” locations
In it contains the reasoning behind sub personhood, and the correlations between non whiteness and the state of nature. Giving a skewed overview of reality allowing those within the Racial Contract themselves to be blinded by it. Since those in agreement are the fish, they are unable to see the water that surrounds them.
In actuality all that the Epistemic Contract is is the blinding light that allows those within to go about their lives without ever batting an eye at their own actions. Since racism does not affect them they are unable to distinguish it themselves. If this Epistemic Contract would fall however, the entire Racial Contract would begin to crumble along with it. It would take some time, but it would crumble eventually.
Locke’s Social Contract completely facilitates the Racial Contract in the sense that everyone is equal in the state of nature, but once men of a certain group leave it to form a civilization they now become better than those who are interpreted to still be in the state of nature. They are considered human, but since they are not deemed civilized they are automatically lesser beings. Lesser beings who must be shown the ways of “proper” humanity. Therefore these sub are seen as children in the eyes of the