Routing Out Supremacy’s Religious Roots: From Skin Color Back Through Bible Code to City-State Coercion

“Routing Out Supremacy’s Religious Roots: From Skin Color Back Through Bible Code to City,” an Outcome archive entry by James W. Perkinson. The entry belongs to the crosscurrents collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses Perkinson discusses the origins of colonialism and white supremacy, tracing it back to the relationship with the land. He explores the shift from pastoral nomad lifeways to city. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including INTRODUCTION beginning in the middle (“east”) I begin in the middle—as in fact we all do all the time. But today it has special cache—at least in connection with one particular direction, as in “Middle East.” In the main, I want to talk about colonialism in history. But that demands recognizing its most blatant spectacle “feeding” the capitalist machine today. So yes, the Mid East, in all of our news feeds. But of course, on a round planet, we ultimately fool ourselves if we think there really is such a thing as “east” that is distinct from “west.” Go far. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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