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The notion of race took hold in order to justify the capital accumulation of colonialism, a term that I use to include White settler colonialism and land seizure, the transatlantic slave trade, religious missionary efforts, forceful invasion and occupation, and additionally the epistemic violence and resulting legacy that persists today. Racism is therefore “not simply a by-product of empire but an intrinsic part of it, part of the intestines of empire” (Pieterse, 1989, p. 223). The capitalist roots of racism mean that all racism necessarily involves cap- italism, and that all capitalism is racial capitalism (Melamed, 2011), with the production of capital (for example, land theft and slavery) made possible only by uneven relations of power between humans, which have historically been naturalized as racial differences. This extends to more contemporaneous versions such as prison labor, predatory lending, and language hierarchies. Oluo (2018) in fact defines race as: “a lie told to justify a crime” (p. 12).