Mills argues that if we realize the nature of the social contstructions we have created for ourselves and in which we continue to operate, we can change the foundation of such world. First he explains the totality of what the Racial Contract is, saying it is “political, moral, and epistemological; the Racial Contract is real; and economically, in determining who gets what, the Racial Contract is an exploitation contract” (Mills, 25). He definitely believes his theory does a better job of explaining the world in which we live. He says that the “central concept the notion of a Racial Contract might be more revealing of the real character of the world we are living in, and the corresponding historical deficiencies of its normative theories and practices, than the raceless notions currently dominant in political theory” (Mills, …show more content…
Regardless of wether that is an accepted way to think about the modern world, he thinks its obvious considering the way that Europeans practiced “colonial conquest,” the political structures created by Europeans for these states which included “exclusionary juridical mechanisms” driven by “official racist ideologies” as well as the history of “slavery and colonialism” and more recently “the formal and informal structures of discrimination” (Mills, 46). To him, it is a complete shock considering the history of these European practices “are all within recent historical memory and, of course, massively documented in other disciplines” (Mills, 46). Though it may seem blatantly obvious to most “non-white” people of the world, it is the opposite to whites, “since most whites don’t think about it or don’t think about it as the outcome of a history of political oppression but rather as just ‘the way things are’ (Mills, 46). Thus, it is first necessary to acknowledge such a system exists in the first place to then deal with the