The black soul is a construct created by white civilization

Evidence

For many reasons, however, it is fair to say that the most significant of the obliterations of the New World’s past was that which affected the African. The African became the more enduring “domestic enemy,” and consequently the object around which a more specific, particular, and exclusive conception of humanity was molded. The “Negro,” that is the color black, was both a negation of African and a unity of opposition to white. The construct of Negro, unlike the terms “African,” “Moor,” or “Ethiope” suggested no situatedness in time, that is history, or space, that is ethnoor politico-geography. The Negro had no civilization, no cultures, no religions, no history, no place, and finally no humanity that might command consideration. Like his eastern, central, and western European prototypes, in their time, and the French peasants, the Slavs, the Celtic peoples, and more recently the American “Indians,” the Negro constituted a marginally human group, a collection of things of convenience for use and/or eradication. This was, of course, no idle exercise in racial and moral schemata since it directly related to a most sizable quantum of labor disciplined and applied in a most extraordinary way. Slave labor in the New World, as we have seen in the precapitalist societies of Europe, was an inextricable element in the material, commercial, and capital development that took place. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 428 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites; The Negro and whiteness were invented in Europe through scholarly effort; The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 428 (+1 more)

Related

• The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself (similarity 0.90)
• Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization (similarity 0.87)
• The invented Negro erased Africa’s civilizational contributions from Western memory (similarity 0.85)
• The Negro identity was manufactured in the West, not brought from Africa. (similarity 0.84)
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa (similarity 0.83)
• The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements (similarity 0.83)
• African heritage, not slavery, defined the Black condition (similarity 0.82)
• The slave trade gave racial ideology its specific object, creating the Negro (similarity 0.82)
• White intellectuals declared Africans historyless to rationalize racial slavery (similarity 0.81)
• Black mass culture evolved from resistance to slavery and a racial social order (similarity 0.81)
• Racial ideology predated and prepared for the creation of the Negro (similarity 0.81)
• The Negro category was constructed to justify Black labor’s centrality to capitalism (similarity 0.80)
• The ‘Negro’ category erased Africa’s contributions to Western civilization (similarity 0.80)
• A civilization like Europe’s could not produce self-critique exposing its own racialism (similarity 0.80)
• Racialism is rooted in European civilization itself, not a single era (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 428
• The Negro and whiteness were invented in Europe through scholarly effort #corroborates (0.60)
• Negroes’ strivings aim to prove black civilization to whites #corroborates (0.50)