WEB Du Bois: "Everything great, good, efficient, fair, and honorable is "white"; everything mean, bad, blundering, cheating, and dishonorable is "yellow"; a bad taste is "brown"; and the devil is "black.""
- White supremacy creates racial hierachies to keep white people at the top of the system
- Races are ranked to encourage hatred between different groups of color
- There is an underlying insecurity within white individuals of not having the most systemic power