supremacy of whites has long been the power that has ruled. There is formal rule structured around the beliefs and needs of whites. There is informal rule built around the whites loathing of blacks. The blacks couldn't get jobs, couldn't get money to afford an education or food, let alone the better things in life. If there is no way for the blacks to better themselves then they could never reach the same level as the whites. Was this a coincidence? No, it was the way things were meant to be. As Charles Mills states in The Racial Contract, "White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today" (1). The main underlying component in recent history is the influence of the white person. Whites have placed their own beliefs into the common laws of the land. Maybe this wasn't meant to happen but the matter of fact is those prejudices are there and they unfairly place one above another. The investors saw the black people as a paycheck, as something to sell over sees to farm the land, as stock. The insurers saw the blacks as stock also, but as stock that should have been treated better. The judge saw the actions taken by the captain and crew as distasteful but necessary to further protect from the loss of the stock. The necessity to kill 131 black people was understandable to them, but the need to kill 131 white people could never be acceptable. The killings were acceptable and the insurers had to pay because evidence brought forth by the cook's assistant wasn't sufficient. The writing of a black slave who was thrown into the sea and climbed back onto the ship wasn't enough. It was an invented fabricated story by the insurers. Surely no black woman would be so educated and remain unknown to the crew. The insurers claimed that the crew was throwing over perfectly healthy people and the evidence supported this notion. Although the evidence was questioned for being allowed since it que...
