"How has scientific racism been a major factor in the historical white whitewashing of pre-19th century europe "For example, Dylann Roof — the alleged Charleston, S.C., massacre shooter — wrote in his manifesto: “Negroes have lower IQs, lower impulse control, and higher testosterone levels in generals. These three things alone are a recipe for violent behavior.”
- Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism iscreeping back into our thinking.
Nicholas Wade, “A Troublesome Inheritance,” posited that recent genetic and genomic research suggests
that Africa’s underdevelopment was a result of genetic inferiority of the
communities on the continent, eschewing the devastating effects of colonialism.
- Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism iscreeping back into our thinking.
“It is a serious question
among them whether the Africans are descended from monkeys or whether the
monkeys come from them. Our wise men have said that man was created in the
image of God. Now here is a lovely image of the Divine Maker: a flat and black
nose with little or hardly any intelligence. A time will doubtless come when
these animals will know how to cultivate the land well, beautify their houses
and gardens, and know the paths of the stars: one needs time for everything.”[16]
Meiners
split mankind into two divisions, which he labelled the "beautiful White race"
and the "ugly Black race".
- Christoph Meiners
He
described a story where a Negro was condemned to death by being burned alive.
Halfway through the burning, the Negro asked to smoke a pipe and smoked it like
nothing was happening while he continued to be burned alive
