Madison Grant (1865-1937) was an American scientific racist and conservationist. In 1916 he wrote the book that Hitler called his Bible: “The Passing of the Great Race”, a best-seller in America. He helped to shape American laws on immigration, marriage and even deer hunting and was a friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover. He was a founder of the Bronx Zoo and was behind putting Ota Benga there.
Grant worked not just to save the redwoods, bisons and bald eagles of North America but also the Nordics.
Nordics are the white people from northern Europe. Nearly all the white people who came to America before 1845 were Nordics. Grant himself was one. They tend to be tall, have long, narrow noses, long heads and eyes of blue, green or grey. He said they are natural adventurers, soldiers, lovers of freedom and leaders of men. They possess high intelligence.
Grant said Darwinian evolution made them the best humans in the world: the hard, unforgiving winters in northern Europe killed off the fools who did not have enough food and clothing for the winter.
Further south life was easier, so people were ruled more by their passions, more given to crime and drink. Life required less intelligence so there was less of it. Southern Europe was bad enough, but black Africa was the worst.
He saw that in the New York of his day: whites from southern and eastern Europe and blacks from the American South were pouring into the city bringing poverty and crime. They voted for corrupt political machines, showing they cared little for freedom.
Grant said they were just born that way, so the only way to save America from becoming a crime-ridden banana republic was through eugenics:
- Stop them from coming in large numbers through immigration laws.
- Stop them from having so many children – through birth control and for some outright government sterilization.
- Stop them from marrying Nordics.
To warn the nation he wrote “The Passing of the Great Race”, throwing every bit of science he could find behind his racism along with some bad reasoning to prove it. It sold 1.6 million copies in America.
Then he worked to change the laws. Coming from an old, rich New York family he had the ear of plenty of powerful men.
Two notable laws that he had a hand in:
- The Johnson Act of 1924, which cut way down on eastern and southern Europeans coming to America and cut off Asians altogether.
- Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which outlawed whites from marrying blacks. This was the very law that the Supreme Court struck down in 1967 in Loving v Virginia.
He did not stop there: he wanted anthropology to be based on race, on the physical. Franz Boas, who as a Jew and a Marxist had little patience for Grant’s ideas, wanted to base it on the cultural. In the end Boas won.
The death blow for Grant’s ideas came when the Nazis used them at the Nuremberg Trials to defend their crimes.
– Abagond, 2010.
See also:
“They tend to be tall, have long, narrow noses, long heads and eyes of blue, green or grey.”
Plenty of “Nordics” that don’t fit this description, even if you narrow Nordic down to it’s current definition of only Scandinavians/far northern Europeans.
“Grant said Darwinian evolution made them the best humans in the world: the hard, unforgiving winters in northern Europe killed off the fools who did not have enough food and clothing for the winter.”
Because living in an extremely hot, tropical environment is a breeze.
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may madison grant burn in hell were he belongs with all the other white supremacist past and present, thank heavens we have a creator , just imagine if men were god? racial pride and you dont even know how you came into existence ,here today and gone tomorow. i dare madison grant to rise from his grave , alas man is but a fleeting shadow. pride they say goes before the fall , go to egypt their monuments lie buried in sand, their mummies dried up and lifeless, rome,greece and soon the anglo- american empire will also go to ruins , as a symbol to remind the unthinking masses how fleeting this material world is.
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he loves freedom?? lol @ that one.
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Interesting.
He reminds me of Robert Lewis Dabney (1820 – 1898). He wrote “A Defense of Virginia” – one of the most racist books ever written on slavery.
I have never understood why there is such a strong link between racists in America and Christianity.
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With regard to:
“The death blow for Grant’s ideas came when the Nazis used them at the Nuremberg Trials to defend their crimes”.
And this in essence when the Western world turned away from ‘race’, at least overtly. As Cesaire and Du Bois pointed out this was the first time the racialist theories of White western civilisation that had been so long used against those designated as ‘Non White’ had imploded in on itself, to be used against other Whites who were members of the ‘elite’ race.
This book disccuses some of these issues
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It should also be noted he didn’t invented all of these concepts himself, and definitely not the only one who inspired Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Kossinna
These are some dangers of the extreme diffusionism models Thad was talking about.
PS-As for Boas, I never saw his name anglicized(?), but I believe get more results by googling/searching under Franz Boas.
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Sorry, the anglicization was probably mine. I changed it to FRANZ Boas. Thanks.
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It’s not just you, I checked. There are several sources (sites) that put “Frank”. But it’s best to change it into Franz, because that’s how you get the most results and, well, that was his name.
The guy is considered by many to be the father of American anthropology. Despite his own racism (or, “being the child of his time”), he was one of the first people who said races were cultural and not biological facts.
Some of his students were also famous anthropologists.
Maybe you should do a post on him.
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Maddy!
How ’bout that Lathrop Stoddard, too?
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Maddy tried to get Franz fired from his job at Columbia, too.
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Second the idea for a post on Papa Franz.
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And still whilst we on this theme.
“The death blow for Grant’s ideas came when the Nazis used them at the Nuremberg Trials to defend their crimes”.
…It is only after World War 2, that Hitler becomes this bogey figure. Up to then he had been like any other White Western leader, advocating ‘White Supremacy’ globally.
In the scheme of White Supremacy, he was the first to unleash ‘genocide’ on other groups (albeit inferior in his eyes) of White people, which the Western powers were want to commit on those designated nly as Non-White. And this in essence, although it is never stated, is Hitler’s greatest crime to humanity from a euro-centrred perspective.
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This post may be a cause for optimism. If Italians can go from being viewed as genetic defectives to forming a beloved component of the American ethnic tapestry in just a few decades, what might be the possibilities for blacks?
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They tend to be tall, have long, narrow noses, long heads and eyes of blue, green or grey. He said they are natural adventurers, soldiers, lovers of freedom and leaders of men. They possess high intelligence.
This guy was completely wrong:
This is the true ‘Nordic’
http://mitziscollectibles.typepad.com/.a/6a011168ca5559970c0120a76d3fd5970b-800wi
‘A typical Nordic couple’
Then:
Grant said Darwinian evolution made them the best humans in the world: the hard, unforgiving winters in northern Europe killed off the fools who did not have enough food and clothing for the winter.
Again, he is wrong! The smart ones got out of Dodge! They migrated to warmer climates.
“Typical Italian ‘Nordics”. The smart ones! As you can see, they greatly resembled their Neanderthal ancestors.
Further south life was easier, so people were ruled more by their passions, more given to crime and drink.
That sounds as if a fun time was had by all. Jealous much?
Stop them from coming in large numbers through immigration laws.
Where did I hear that before? Oh yes, on the immigration threads!
Then he worked to change the laws. Coming from an old, rich New York family he had the ear of plenty of powerful men.
Another rich jacka$$ with too much cash on hand, too much leisure time, and low self-esteem, albeit dangerous!
Lathrop Stoddard
Was his mother drunk when she named him that? What’s scary is the millions of people who bought and read these books, and the ‘philosophies’ behind these books, which were appropriated by the likes of Hitler. There are even some who believe that Nordics are in actuality, ‘aliens’, or the ancient inhabitants of ‘Ultima Thule’. again appropriated by the nazis. Science and Science Fiction at its’ worst.
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^Lol. You can’t be serious.
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Well, technically, ideas about race can, and do change. Cultural construct is redefined and reshaped based on current cultural, political etc. needs. But realistically, I don’t think we’ll see post-racial world any time soon. The us vs them dichotomy is still really strong here.
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^I’m just laughing at the idea that blacks should take heart that they may, one day be accepted by whites. What else could they possibly want?!
Lol.
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Lol, true! The ultimate goal for every non-white person is to be, well, white. 😛
The problem with this idea is, that if blacks and Asians and all other races become “white”, there won’t be whites anymore. If you have one race, you don’t have races anymore, or white privilege, etc. I hear many whites praise the idea of post-racial, “mulatto” world, but I don’t think they are aware what would that actually mean in terms of their position in the society.
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Reading FG comments,
I read it that he is referring to ‘possibilites’ in the form of ‘what can be achieved’ by Blacks.
Anyhow I am sure he will come and clarify for us.
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I thought he was referring to the idea that the meaning of races can change, that what is considered inferior today might be seen as equal in the future. In that way, yes, it is possible to see the change when it comes to blacks; but I am not really optimistic.
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Then again, after reading your (Mira) comment, re-reading his comments and Natasha W,
Natasha W may well be correct, since it does appear to be tied into about being acceptable to White American society
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SW6:
I was very careful to say that “Grant’s ideas”, not racism, were dealt a death blow. No one openly follows him or builds on his ideas – he has become a mad uncle figure.
On the other hand if racism were dead then someone like Madison Grant would not even interest me in the first place.
There are also whites on the Internet, like Guy White and No Slappz, whose thinking is not too far different from Grant’s. It was Guy White who asked the question, “Would blacks survive on their own in Finland?” – I mean, why would anyone even think to ask that question? But set against Grant’s ideas it becomes clear what that question is about.
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“^I’m just laughing at the idea that blacks should take heart that they may, one day be accepted by whites. What else could they possibly want?!”
I think being accepted by the majority population is a very desirable thing myself.
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From what I learned, to be fully accepted in American society, you have to be seen as white.
Then again, I don’t think FG really suggested the only way blacks can earn respect is to be white, nor that they should and do want this. Still, the implication stays- to be fully respected, you must be seen as an equal, and in most of the cases, that still means, to be seen as white.
However, I must stress again: in post-racial world, there are no races (that’s obvious). But what’s less than obvious is that such a society would be much different than today’s. To whites, it would mean losing white privilege. To blacks, it could mean losing the identity.
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With regard to:
“However, I must stress again: in post-racial world, there are no races (that’s obvious). But what’s less than obvious is that such a society would be much different than today’s. To whites, it would mean losing white privilege. To blacks, it could mean losing the identity”.
I do not think this is quite accurate, and in the real world we can utilise Cuba, where Whites continue to dominate.
This notwithstanding that ‘great strides’ have been made post 1959 vis-a-vis pre-revolution.
This is one of the problems of ‘post-racial’ etc, in the real world it is in essence an ‘illusion’, ie merely another way of maintaining the status quo, but under the pretext of something else.
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I was unaware of the fact Cuba was post-racial. Sadly, socialism doesn’t mean post-racial.
This is one of the problems of ‘post-racial’ etc, in the real world it is in essence an ‘illusion’, ie merely another way of maintaining the status quo, but under the pretext of something else.
I meant on true post-racial world, in which races as social categories don’t exist anymore in ways we know them today.
Of course, “races” of some sorts will always exist, because society needs other groups to form “us vs them” dichotomy, but they don’t have to be based on skin colour or any physical feature. The idea of “physical” races (in today’s sense) is relatively new.
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The point still nevertheless remains
Cuba has attempted to make a race-less society, post 1959, irrespective of whether it does or does not fit the definition of a Socialist country, by those who define themselves by such terms.
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Well, the point of post-racial world should go with socialism, but in reality, it is not the case. Cuba is no different to any other country today because it’s not post-racial. I was speaking of true post racial world, and I don’t think it’s possible any time soon.
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The idea of “physical” races (in today’s sense) is relatively new.
There are some who would suggest otherwise and as I have said somewhere previously on this blog these scholars believe White supremacy, as an ideology based on skin can be traced back to at least 1500 BC.
What I will concede as NEW is that this phenomena has recently spread over the whole world.
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With regard to Cuba,
There are those who say it is Socialist, others who suggest that it is not.
With regard to Socialism there are feminist who suggest that it will not lead to the emancipation of women, whilst others believe it will
Then there are those Black activist who argue that it will not bring about racial equality, whilst others believe it will.
My point was not about Socialism but how things manifest themselves in the real world
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The bottom line is that post-racialism (is that even a word?) doesn’t exist in our world- and when I say “our” I mean on Earth, not any of its specific cultures (not any I know of).
There are some who would suggest otherwise and as I have said somewhere previously on this blog these scholars believe White supremacy, as an ideology based on skin can be traced back to at least 1500 BC.
Even if that’s true… which I don’t believe it is, what are we going to do with non-white cultures, cultures that didn’t even know whites existed? You’re not seriously claiming that these cultures didn’t divide people in some sort of races?
All cultures need this division, all cultures need their “savages” of some sorts, in order to feel superior.
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Very interesting read Abagond…
I guess Steve Sailer is Grant incarnate…minus the high society connections.
Its amazing to me how the Human Biodiversity crowd loves to tout their ideas as something new and innovated when in reality HBD is just microwaved pseudoscience from the early 1900s.
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I don’t have anything to insightful to add at the moment but I will say that the more I read about white supremacists, the more frustrated I am with the world. Racism is still alive and well and its really interesting to read about blatant racists who once were and compare that to this almost subconscious white racism in our country. All over the world really. Even more frightening is to think about how this attitude is ingrained within the minds of black girls like me all over the place. Its like we can never really get away from it and I don’t think we ever will. 😦
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This post may be a cause for optimism. If Italians can go from being viewed as genetic defectives to forming a beloved component of the American ethnic tapestry in just a few decades, what might be the possibilities for blacks?
You know what? I was going to make a bold statement about this but it would be considered a form of ad hom so I will keep my thoughts to me-self. 😀
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Personally, I think it is FG’s attempt once again to defend ALL things White as opposed to defend all things Black, but as he has already hinted, by way of reference to me, that would be neo-fascism.
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Mira,
Jus to say the ‘facts’ are out there, it should never be a case about merely ‘believing’ per se.
I do concur with you that humans do ‘discriminate’ in one form or another.
If it is not race, then it is sex/gender, if it is not sex/gender, then it is tribe. If none of these categories no longer existed. Then we would make up new categories overnight.
Again this is the ‘reality’!!
Perhaps Freud is right when he suggest the ‘best’ we can do is to attempt to ‘miniimise the damage’
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Eugenics is just as logical as it was then. The problem was that then they didn’t had the scientific capability of implementing it correctly. And let’s not compare Nazism with eugenics. Killing off the most intelligent section of society (the Jews) isn’t quite from the manual.
I can’t say Grant was right on everything as he operated within the scientific limitation of the era. Still the fact that most of the South Europe countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy Greece) are tethering on the precipice of bankruptcy after decades of reckless spending and are begging the northern countries to bail them out might be something to think about.
As for the blacks, the decades from desegregation have given more proof to confirm what those racists were saying than to disprove them. The failure of blacks both in the US and worldwide hasn’t given me any reason to hold them in great respect. The fact that we refuse the existence of race is more a symptom of the “cult of equality” that has swept the West from the 60’s and is not supported by any hard evidence, quite the contrary. The defenders of the cult respond to any voice contradicting them with accusations of heresy and being in league with the Devil (AKA a racist)
As for immigration, again, Grant was right on the money. The flood of low IQ illiterate peasants from Latin America doesn’t spell any good things for America in the long term especially in view that at least as high school is concerned, this population manages to drop out worse than blacks.
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@Davi
I hope you do realize that your reasoning is fallacious.
You pile a bunch of bs, and it is our burden to prove you wrong or something ?
Though the challenge is tempting .. i don’t feel like doing it, maybe someone else will ?
Or maybe are you trying to educate us , that people have low IQ on one side of a frontier and high Iq on the other side or something ?
I’m curious . What is it that you want to achieve ?
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Killing off the most intelligent section of society (the Jews) isn’t quite from the manual.
While killing off the least intelligent section of society would be a good thing?
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@davi:
What an asinine statement.
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Eugenics is just as logical as it was then.
Precisely. Treating human beings as if they were cattle is the kind of “logic” one would expect from a high-function autistic.
While killing off the least intelligent section of society would be a good thing?
We could start with the eugenics cheer-leading section.
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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism By Stefan Kühl
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UGYfRv3DWuQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Maddison+lothrop+stoddard&source=bl&ots=Ktpgd65g2M&sig=liyioe2XMKUGqoR34S6fUl2bQXA&hl=en&ei=M2QSTLXXD-GO4gaA7u2sCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
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“Personally, I think it is FG’s attempt once again to defend ALL things White as opposed to defend all things Black, but as he has already hinted, by way of reference to me, that would be neo-fascism.”
I don’t defend all things white. I’ve noted on this blog that there is racism and prejudice among whites as there is among other groups. I have taken a more nuanced position on racial issues than is typical, though. To be honest, I am a fan of the white American ethnicity and believe that it has achieved great things and has not just oppressed other groups.
I believe Thad was the one who likened your views to fascism. I’m not sure if I would go that far. However, calling for everyone of a general phenotype to be united by single culture and political program does come off as a bit authoritarian.
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So, ethnic partisanship is evil when manifested in whites?
What about non white ethnic partisanship?
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This explains plenty.
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With regard to:
“To be honest, I am a fan of the white American ethnicity and believe that it has achieved great things and has not just oppressed other groups”.
Forgive me, but you did agree with Thad on neo-fascist, even if there is an attempt on this thread to adopt a different position.
And with regard to the aforesaid it comes close to what I inferred.
Furthermore its not clear to me at least, since my time on this blog ,what aspect of White America and I would add White people per se is it that you admire especially when it is compared vis-a-vis Native Americans and African Americans??
Furthermore I would add that since I have been here. I have not heard you come out and say unequivocally, that you are a fan of Black American ethnicity and or Black people per se.
Mutatis mutandis
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And your comment that suggests that Black should seek acceptance from Whites highlights a ‘worship for all things white’, which would conversely manifest itself in the thought of Black unity across the world, which you felt sufficiently moved to comment upon – but not the positive statement that you are prouds of Blacks per se.
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And Finally,
With regard to
“However, calling for everyone of a general phenotype to be united by single culture and political program does come off as a bit authoritarian”.
However, this is what White western people and nations have done for the past 500 years.
Are you brave enough to call this a major part of the culture of White civilisation that you admire so much ‘authoritarian’??
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“The bottom line is that post-racialism (is that even a word?) doesn’t exist in our world- and when I say “our” I mean on Earth, not any of its specific cultures (not any I know of).”
@Mira-
umm. . .according to some who comment here (i believe i’ve read this from more than one commenter), Brazil is a post- racial society & it’s on earth. . .snicker.
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To be honest, I am a fan of the white American ethnicity
SMDH
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Forgive me, but you did agree with Thad on neo-fascist, even if there is an attempt on this thread to adopt a different position.
Uhn?
“Neo”-fascist?
J, I agree with your great leader Marcus Garvey: you Garveyites INVENTED fascism only to have it stolen from you by that evil mighty whitey, Benny Mussolini.
“Neo”, indeed! You’re as roots as they come! 😀
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However, this is what White western people and nations have done for the past 500 years.
Oh, sure, J.
Can you give us ONE example of this? I mean aside from a handful of racist loons? One, just one, white president of France, say, who said “Hey, screw our differences with germany. We’re all white, after all”?
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“Furthermore its not clear to me at least, since my time on this blog ,what aspect of White America and I would add White people per se is it that you admire especially when it is compared vis-a-vis Native Americans and African Americans??”
Well I can’t say that I admire white people per se because whites are too diverse to generalize much about. What connects white Americans to Chechens, for example?
What I admire about Euro-American ethnicity is its emphasis on political openness, reform, industriousness, technological innovation, learning, and individualism. I see Benjamin Franklin as its personification.
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“As for the blacks, the decades from desegregation have given more proof to confirm what those racists were saying than to disprove them. The failure of blacks both in the US and worldwide hasn’t given me any reason to hold them in great respect.”
@ davi-
you poor thing. your pathetic insecurity almost makes me feel bad about bringing truth & harming you even more.
i will repeat this over & over again for the black people who keep falling for the “you’ve had the same opportunities as us to succeed/be good americans” okey doke.
blacks in america have made huge strides in the few decades since they’ve been able to exercise their rights as full human beings. even while they still must endure institutional racism, racial stereotyping, racial profiling, racist-sexism, etc., on top of all the usual challenges that all people deal with in life. While whites have had centuries of privilege, entitlement & favor (yeah, even those whites who came to america as immigrants had one big advantage over blacks who were born american citizens–skin color).
why, after centuries of being in america, are white-skin people still uncivilized, ignorant, murderers, rapists, child molesters, wall-street thugs, & scammers (human character flaws & not racial flaws, btw). the big question is if eugenics is true, shouldn’t white people be perfect with all that superior IQ & all?
davi, my friend, you are more of a loser than you even think. stick to the sorry excuse of eugenics, baby. that way you’ll always be a legend in your own mind.
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To be honest, I am a fan of the white American ethnicity and believe that it has achieved great things and has not just oppressed other groups.
Nothing short of TRAGIC.
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Eugenics is just as logical as it was then. The problem was that then they didn’t had the scientific capability of implementing it correctly. And let’s not compare Nazism with eugenics. Killing off the most intelligent section of society (the Jews) isn’t quite from the manual.
Sure it was. Tell that to the millions killed during this maniac’s regime. Oops, I forgot , they’re dead. This fool(Hitler), had to start somewhere, that ‘somewhere’ was this type of books and the many others proliferating out there at the time. As for Jews, too bad you were not around when Hitler was practicing his eugenics based slaughter. He didn’t care if they were ‘smart’. All he cared about was getting rid of them in order to keep the ‘nordic’ races’ pure.
The fact that we refuse the existence of race is more a symptom of the “cult of equality” that has swept the West from the 60′s and is not supported by any hard evidence, quite the contrary.
Quite the contrary indeed. Bring back the Nazis! Then no one will have to worry as most will be dead!
The defenders of the cult respond to any voice contradicting them with accusations of heresy and being in league with the Devil (AKA a racist)
No they don’t, they are responding to receptors emanating from the brain, hence causing gaseous anomalies to issue forth in the form of lunatic babbling. What is scary is the attempts made to sound sane and reasonable! As for being in league with the devil, Ol’ Scratch taint interested as this type of thinking turns even him off. He wants more souls for corrupting not less. Henceforth and hitherto, the more people being born, the more souls he has to corrupt. If there isn’t much people around, the less souls to corrupt, get it? Scratch would be out of a job, someone else walking the dole line! You wouldn’t want that would you?
As for immigration, again, Grant was right on the money. The flood of low IQ illiterate peasants from Latin America doesn’t spell any good things for America in the long term especially in view that at least as high school is concerned, this population manages to drop out worse
than blacks.
I’m sure the Natives said the same thing or something along those lines, when those clowns, I mean pilgrims, got off the Mayflower.
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With regard to:
What I admire about Euro-American ethnicity is its emphasis on political openness, reform, industriousness, technological innovation, learning, and individualism. I see Benjamin Franklin as its personification.
And presumably this is only for White people.
Since you fail to see the ‘authortarian’ and hear read White Supremacy/racism in the personification of Benjamin Franklin.
Once again your owns words confirm your own state of mind and also intent.
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Can you give us ONE example of this? I mean aside from a handful of racist loons? One, just one, white president of France, say, who said “Hey, screw our differences with germany. We’re all white, after all”?
This is true. I had no idea many people don’t know this. There’s no such thing as “we’re all white after all, let’s unite!” in Europe. No way!
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…and of course the Serbs and Croats are just brimming with brotherly melanin-deficient love for one another.
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Absolutely! Though, it’s not the best example; the history of Balkans goes like this: decades/centuries of hate, decades/centuries of love, another decades/centuries of hate and so on.
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With regard to:
“This is true. I had no idea many people don’t know this. There’s no such thing as “we’re all white after all, let’s unite!” in Europe. No way!”
I am afraid for the past 500 years starting in 1492, there has been an expansion of European domination on those who have been designated as Non-White.
This is unequivocal.
Furthermore there has been a further consolidation of White Europeans nations since 1992.
This is a fact.
And this process is part of global white supremacy vis-a-vis those that who have been designated as Non-White, by those who created and devsed the system
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It is also very interesting to observe that there is a denial that there is a system of White supremacy, in spite of the historical evidence, and current evidence before us all, that favours those countries are designated a White vis-a-vis those who are designated as ‘Non-Whites’
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So let’s see you put your money where your mouth is, J: one white president of France, say, who advised that country’s citizens to unite with their German neighbors based on whiteness.
Just one, J.
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I mean, as far as I can tell, being “Afrocentric” to you, J, means making up whatever the hell you want.
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Thad,
Do you really wish to tell this blog, in your role of an ‘academic troll’ that White people from Western europe did NOT go across the world, built up their respective empires on the basis of racism (ie White people are superior, POC are inferior/sub-human, and that even today we are still living from a ‘fall out’ of this reality, which existed for 500 years.
In fact more time has been spent living this reality (500 years) than if you pre-suppose this global White racism ended 1945 – which would be 65 years ago.
And you have the temerity to talk about Afrocentricity means making things up.
If this is the case then what does this say about you, your partner, who are make a living influencing the minds of thousands of students daily??
Did you not say you teach some form of ‘Black History’ course in the University??
Take a look at yourself and your partner first – I would submit. When you make reference to making things up accordingly…
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This racial superiority idea is a load of crap. Has caused nothing but misery & suffering since time out of mind. If humans were dogs we’d be the same breed…yellow labs,black labs,white labs & everything in between. But wait !!! Don’t wanna insult our canine friends ! You can put all those dogs together & they’ll play & have fun. You won’t find any of them bombing cities,flying planes into buildings, starting wars, destrying the environment or committing genocide.
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Herneith is being just as racist as hitler with those comments. I’m Nordic but that doesn’t mean that I support hitler or that I am racist.
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So what is this question of ethnicity all about, really? Why are there people out there who feel it necessary to equate any group by some measurement of intelligence? Well probably the most important ones include any person’s ability or lack thereof to adapt to and conform to the expectations of its “new” society. Some “groups” have obviously, noticeably adapted better than others as immigrants to this country. Isn’t this obvious? Can’t you see it? Is this a sign of intelligence? Does this really suggest some groups just aren’t “meant” for their more civilized host cultures? Think about it. Which cultures across the planet currently thrive and which are struggling to? Then there’s the side-effect of third-world cultures attempting to adopt first-world technology and their governing models It just won’t work, as we can now see. One doesn’t have to be racist to scientifically observe the unfortunate facts. By permitting more and more illegal aliens to enter our country, we are in fact dumbing down our society. By 2030, the United States will become another third-world country as a result. All technological innovation and economic prosperity will hail from either Europe or China (depending on who wins the third world war over energy!) I certainly dont’ mean anyone any harm, and I understand others’ plight, but if there aren’t enough jobs available in your native land, then why don’t you try changing your own country instead of invading ours and stealing our jobs? Yes, this is the ugly truth, but it’s the truth nonetheless. But being discriminating isn’t the problem. We all do it every second of every day (E.g. deciding which clothes to wear for the day). No–discrimination/racism is not bad; how we choose to act on it, however, can be. In the end, the white man alone is to blame for his own human stupidity and greed. A more civilized society should be forbidden from interfering with the natural development of a less civilized one, and the members of a less-civilized people should be forbidden from entering ours–a sort of, “prime directive.”
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Apparently you do not see the irony in your statement. Madison Grant and others in the 1920s made the very same argument against letting Jews and Italians come to America: they were genetically inferior and would destroy the country; they were not suited to American civilization; they brought poverty and crime; they would not assimilate, blah, blah, blah. But it turned out to be nothing like that. Grant was just a racist asshole.
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Now white supremacy became white extinction… Sorry but the truth is western politics, political corectness, multi-culti started new chapter in history, chapter of dying nations, end of civilisation of white man. Chinese are using eugenics on mass scale, Muslims continue politics of mass children birth while west instead of defending it’s identity is just inviting wholly different cultures to come, reproduce, mix and let Europe become Afroasia.
It could be bad to say that your skin colour is better than other or that you are more intelligent than people on different continent but being patriot and loving countryman as how they are, as how they look like and all genes of their fathers, fathers of fathers and mothers of mathers isn’t bad. It’s respect for who we are and who we want to stay and who we want our children to keep being. Genes of skin, eyes, hair colour, nose, body shape, hight, posture are only part of bigger group of all DNA which identify us. You can’t ask someone if he has Aryan R1A genes or Celtic R1B but you can just look at him and check it by light eyes(blue green), hair(blond red) or ask about blood type to get information about A or Rh-! People should have freedom to chose who they want and freedom to stay who they are.
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Bolesław Chrobacki, you want blond hair, blue eyes and “fair” skin, check these sites out and let us know what you make of the information found there.http://news.softpedia.com/news/Naturally-Blonde-Blacks-48181.shtml, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2139462/Riddle-Solomon-solved-Scientists-South-Sea-islanders-blond-hair-didnt-come-Europeans-evolved-separately.html, http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2013/02/blacks-with-blue-eyes-natural.html, http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2012/09/albinos-in-africa.html. I’ll go on a limb and guess that they aren’t the types of blonds, fair skinned or blue eyed people you had in mind.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/
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