The demands of self worth dignity :– respect for equal humanity – require us to historicize, contextualize, and deepen the discussion. One cannot acknowledge another’s equal humanity without first interrogating the nature of that person’s humanity, as well as one’s own. This entails, among other things, a strong consideration of the lived experience of racial minorities. This means examining and coming to terms with the historical and present forms of oppression that provide content to the peculiar racial reality of subordinated racial groups. For Africans, this may entail a deepened sense of appreciation of how the legacy of slavery, segregation, and stubborn beliefs in cultural inferiority continue to negatively impact their lives. For the majority of Africans living in Finland and other European countries, this may entail a greater appreciation of the ritual degradation and ethnic discrimination experienced by immigrant, low and highly skilled workers, it may also include a greater sensitivity regarding the extended history of governmental and nongovernmental oppression, alienation, and stereotyping that continue to constrain social and economic mobility of indigenous Africans. It also entails a greater appreciation of how the legacy of alienation and marginalization exemplified by racist naturalization policy, labour exploitation, and internment feed contemporary mythology of Africans as “perpetual foreigners” that plagues and confounds second, third, and fourth generation African-Finnish/European citizens. Also racial dignity must affirm communal dignity or presumptive worthiness of social inclusion. This is not an easy task, for one cannot affirm another’s presumptive social value or worthiness of inclusion into a community without first interrogating the conditions of that community which make inclusion possible. If whites are to affirm the dignity and presumptive worthiness of inclusion of racial minorities, a necessary precondition is that whites examine critically and self-consciously not only the effects of racial subordination on minorities, but the myriad ways in which the culture of racial subordination has distorted and disfigured majority society in general and white identities in particular. That is, dignity demands that whites not only indulge the prospect of an ever-expanding circle of people deserving respect, but also reflexively examine the question of what allows the white race to see racial minorities as their presumptive inferiors and unworthy compatriots in the first place.