You be smarter. Government consists of what? Who? But that isn’t even the focus of the essay. The essay is about *when* the ideology of white supremacism started and how the negative behaviors began to proliferate and permeate the psyches of many average white people toward Black people as a result. If you need to in order to gain a less triggering, personal, and more critical thought process relative to this and other subjects around Race as color, Race as character, Racism and white Supremacy, read this again after you have read these essays:

1. https://www.calease-writer.com/post/navigating-through-the-language-system-of-racism-and-white-supremacy and
2. https://www.calease-writer.com/post/racism-evolution-iteration-and-revision

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