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Critical Race Theory

If White People Cared Enough About Anthropology and World History, This Wouldn’t Be an Issue

(Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of 3 of my series on Critical Race Theory.)

12 min readMay 6, 2023

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The notion that humans are not racist is by and large hyperbole being promulgated by the tribal descendants of the European colonizers. They are not racist, they are tribal. Tomato, tom-ah-to.

Humans have all been tribal since they first learned to walk upright and use tools. The British, French and Spanish empires were all tribal in nature dating back centuries. It only stands to reason that the explorers that set forth to find new worlds to conquer and bring back massive profits from the new worlds they found, brought their tribal ideologies with them.

Hominids have been a tribal species for nearly 3 million years.

That tribal mentality evolved into conquering attitudes when their tribal populations became large enough that egotistical tribal leaders coerced enough members of their tribes to go out and forcefully take someone else’s stuff because they felt that…

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill
Terrance Ó Domhnaill

Written by Terrance Ó Domhnaill

I am a seanchaí, a Gaelic storyteller. Come sit in the shade of the village oak tree with me and let me tell you a story to make your day.

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