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The basic intention to introduce the idea of race was to make way for white smoothly supremacy over non-whites. Ironically, the colonists who came from out and took over America, chose their identity as white and superior among the other forms of identity, in a place that belonged to those non-white indigenous identities. The race was systematically brought by European colonists and used for assigning slavery and servitude to African Americans and for safe passage of a system that would deny the Native Americans their rights.