The American Minervan

Tag: white supremacy

  • Open Letter: Every Citizen is the Salvation of the Republic

    Open Letter: Every Citizen is the Salvation of the Republic

    The sharpest critics of American white supremacy fluently spoke the civic-republican language, whether we bring to mind David Walker critique of our once “slaveholding republic” that betrayed republican principles; Frederick Douglass’s speeches on “composite nationality” and the Roman-republican ideal of civic membership; Martin Delany’s neo-Roman republicanism; the Haitian Revolution’s liberty against domination; or even twentieth-century…

  • Roots of the “Divine Spark” in African Religious and Philosophical Traditions

    Roots of the “Divine Spark” in African Religious and Philosophical Traditions

    The “divine spark” refers to the inner divine principle that makes a being fully human and capable of ultimate spiritual realization. The claim made by certain European racist occultists (e.g., some 19th-20th century esoteric racists) that Black Africans or people of African descent lack the “divine spark” (the Logos, Atman, Nous, scintilla animae) is philosophically,…

  • Classical Scholars against the Identitarian Right

    Classical Scholars against the Identitarian Right

    In the mid-point to the last quarter of 2018, many articles were written across platforms and the internet on how the Alt-Right and Conservatives were misappropriating “the Greek and Latin Classics” to lend credibility to vicious and vindictive white supremacist and Identitarian ideology. I have compiled several to introduce to us a problem. Classics and…