Loads of codes

In the beginning of chapter 3 Taylor introduces and expands upon how America's social reform pressed for the white supremacists to reorganize a new way of implementing their superiority. Their newfound political ideology materialized as a response to, what they considered, a threatening increase of minority groups in the pursuit of, and outwardly advocating for, equality. Thus these white political powers founded a new, more discreet, and even more systematic approach to institutionalizing racism. The undertaking to continue a lifestyle of supremacy became what Taylor recognizes as late modern rationalism. This is a type of racism that evolved out of understanding the faultiness behind classical racialism and that the basis of this racism is applied in a covert fashion so to allow the whites to maintain their status while conning minorities into being satisfied with their "freedom" and "equal" status. This 2.0 version of American racism was produced with one objective in mind: to delay/stop the possibility of a social revolution, which could untangle the very ties that they have knotted as the foundation of this country, and maintain their all powerful and untouchable supremacist status. Late modern rationalism was and is a maneuver of trickery a movement to deceive--to silence those who found a voice and better positioning themselves. As Taylor puts it on page 76, "Political communities established on white supremacist grounds sought to minimize the costs of maintaining themselves, by accommodating and co-opting resistance before it became too troublesome. This  accommodation and co-optation signified the shift from domination, or rule by force, to hegemony, or, crudely, rule by consent". I believe that this form of control is much worse than outward racism. Hegemony institutionalizes it to another level, making it so that those who were fighting for the cause turn around and end up working against the cause, "A hegemonic formation - the alliance between ruler and ruled that makes control without forcible coercion possible - encourages the disadvantaged to see themselves as stakeholders in the system that generates their disadvantage; it does this in part by granting concessions to them, thereby winning their consent to the system's continuation"(Taylor 77).  The only power non-whites were given was to further instill this racist system within their own communities so that there is no safe haven. No place to hide. This in my opinion is probably the most effective and disturbing type of racism.