White refusal to accept a social contract with Blacks
White supremacy -- the founding principle of the white settler colony that became the United States -- has always been the greatest impediment to the development of a genuine social contract among the peoples of the United States.
Simply put, white majorities reject a social contract (solidarity) with Blacks -- which is why white “backlashes” are a permanent part of the American political cycle.
Over the centuries, white refusal to accept a social contract with Blacks resulted in the African American population becoming a separate and distinct polity -- a “nation within a nation” with its own institutions and worldview.
By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report