Takaki, “The Giddy Multitude”

Takaki writes, “Driven by immediate economic interests and blindled by a short time horizon, the planters had not carefully thought what they were doing to black people as well as to American Society and future generation.” In short he is saying that the founders of this country created a social disorder which has lasted ever since it’s new found existence. These images of the black stereotype were created even before slavery, and continued to create multicultural wars long after its conception.
Takaki argued on how negative association with black culture has spurred racial inequality in the founding of America. That these stereotypes were based on color rather than character. This was evident within the legal system and the exchange of white slaves and black slaves. Black slaves were almost always given a longer sentence to their servants than whites. Along with that the blacks were traded treated along with animals and materials, not even being treated as humans. This was a result of business, the blacks were considered to be cheaper and easier to maintain than whites because it was how the system set the standard based on color. It was easier to distinguish workers by color than work ethic. Financial advantages dominated over everything it set standards and wrote the laws of equality. The standard was that it was easier to separate someone on the basis of race and not class. There came to be less inequalities within the white culture involving class and a larger inequality between black and white.
The problem at the time was that those founders never considered the consequences of creating black slave labors. It was a quick fix for the current problem which created a crisis for centuries to come in American Culture. I believe that there must have been other alternatives discussed to abolish slavery in the 1700’s. Takaki doesn’t go into much detail on discussions of those in office and what their views were at the time. Even though we’re unable to rewrite history it would be possible that the leaders showed a compassion and realization for the problem they were causing.