.....then you will get rid of Race. Period. It's as simple as that.
I, like many , many others of all ethnic backgrounds , are really getting sick of the destruction caused by this thing called Race. And I , like many , many , many others of different ethnicities , have had it with Race altogether. If we really want to get rid of Racism , we will do what needs to be done. There is a way, but I am afraid that there are only a handful of people in the Scientific community who would be willing to do the hard work necessary to put an end to this practice once and for all.
The first thing we would need to do is look at the origins of this concept and admit the most disturbing of all truth. Racism, as we know it today, was not birthed out of ignorance. It was not created by an uneducated fool with no teeth sitting on his back porch ranting and raving about (enter whoever here) Racism had an educated and deliberate conception. Racism was birthed from Science. Now, now , now , before you say "Pffft. This crazy nut. How dare she blame Science for Racism ? ", I would like you to look at this;
From Wikipedia
Scientific racism is the use of scientific or ostensibly scientific findings and methods to investigate differences between races, often to support or validate racist attitudes and worldviews. It is based on belief in the existence and significance of racial categories, typically with a hierarchy of superior and inferior races.
It has often been used to support political or ideological positions of racial supremacy, the most notable examples being propaganda in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow segregation in the southern United States. Scientific racism can refer to both obsolete and contemporary scientific theories and includes the use of anthropology (notably physical anthropology), anthropometry, craniometry, and other disciplines in the construction of typologies and the classification of humans into distinct biological races.
Scientific racism was most widespread during the New Imperialism period in the second half of the 19th century. These theories often worked in conjunction with racism, for example in the case of "human zoos", in which human beings of various races were presented in cages during colonial exhibitions. Such theories and associated actions have been strongly denounced since World War II and the Holocaust, in particular by a 1950 UNESCO statement signed by an international group of scholars known as The Race Question.[1]
Today the phrase is used either as an accusation or to describe what critics consider to be historical racist propaganda alleging the existence of different races. These critics point to The Race Question, which advocates the use of the cultural term "ethnic group". Ethnicity is not a comparative to race, although often used as such.
The phrase "scientific racism" has been applied retroactively to publications on race as far back as the 18th century.
Thank you for reading thus far.If you do not wish to continue, that's up to you, but you will not be able to understand the poll at the end if you don't finish the diary.
I believe that until the source of Racism as we know it , is revisited , we will never free ourselves from this disease. The first steps taken in getting rid of Racism , must include a closer look at Scientific racism where it was birthed and see how it was and still is used to promote the type of Racism that effects our lives today. If you read the entire linked Wikipedia article, you will see that the so called "scientists" who came up with the most demeaning theories about Race, already had racist attitudes and it's no surprise that their findings would "conclude" that the same Race they happened to be , just so happened to also "scientifically be the superior and most desirable race".
Samuel George Morton a racist, natural scientist and an American introduced the scientific racialism that fed the defense of slavery in the United States. It was Morton who came up with the Classification of "races" in Crania Americana. It was he who divided human beings into different "species" as opposed to different types of the SAME species and attributed to them whatever findings he wanted based on skulls. SKULLS . And if you don't believe he was a racist, I'll let his work and his own words rat him out.
Europeans
"The Caucasian Race is characterized by a naturally fair skin, susceptible of every tint; hair fine, long and curling, and of various colors. The skull is large and oval, and its anterior portion full and elevated. The face is small in proportion to the head, of an oval form, with well-proportioned features. . . . This race is distinguished for the facility with which it attains the highest intellectual endowments. . . . The spontaneous fertility of [the Caucasus] has rendered it the hive of many nations, which extending their migrations in every direction, have peopled the finest portions of the earth, and given birth to its fairest inhabitants. . . ."
WOW. What a beautiful people and so smart too because , you know because their heads are shaped just perfect and facial features are just perfect and everything about them is just.....what's the word I'm looking for ? .
Asians
"This great division of the human species is characterized by a sallow or olive colored skin, which appears to be drawn tight over the bones of the face; long black straight hair, and thin beard. The nose is broad, and short; the eyes are small, black, and obliquely placed, and the eyebrows are arched and linear; the lips are turned, the cheek bones broad and flat. . . . In their intellectual character the Mongolians are ingenious, imitative, and highly susceptible of cultivation [i.e. learning]....So versatile are their feelings and actions, that they have been compared to the monkey race, whose attention is perpetually changing from one object to another...."
WOW. They're so quick to learn.
Native Americans
"The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. The eyes are black and deep set, the brow low, the cheekbones high, the nose large and aquiline, the mouth large, and the lips tumid [swollen] and compressed. . . . In their mental character the Americans are averse to cultivation, and slow in acquiring knowledge; restless, revengeful, and fond of war, and wholly destitute of maritime adventure. They are crafty, sensual, ungrateful, obstinate and unfeeling, and much of their affection for their children may be traced to purely selfish motives. They devour the most disgusting [foods] uncooked and uncleaned, and seem to have no idea beyond providing for the present moment. . . . Their mental faculties, from infancy to old age, present a continued childhood. . . . [Indians] are not only averse to the restraints of education, but for the most part are incapable of a continued process of reasoning on abstract subjects. . . ."
WOW. These dumb , ugly , mean , savage people would really scare me if I wasn't part Cherokee.
Africans
"Characterized by a black complexion, and black, woolly hair; the eyes are large and prominent, the nose broad and flat, the lips thick, and the mouth wide; the head is long and narrow, the forehead low, the cheekbones prominent, the jaws protruding, and the chin small. In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. . . . The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. . . . The Negroes are proverbially fond of their amusements, in which they engage with great exuberance of spirit; and a day of toil is with them no bar to a night of revelry. Like most other barbarous nations their institutions are not infrequently characterized by superstition and cruelty. They appear to be fond of warlike enterprises, and are not deficient in personal courage; but, once overcome, they yield to their destiny, and accommodate themselves with amazing facility to every change of circumstance. The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute."
WOW. Look at me. I seem to be so very ....entertaining. Dumb, but entertaining and you better not make me angry because you know.......I guess I'll just kick yer butt or something.
All of the prejudice and stereotypes that we have been taught about each other , can find it's origins in the mind of a racist scientist! A smart , educated RACIST scientist. Debunk his racist theory and you kill Racism. Like I said at the start of my diary, there are only a handful of people within the Scientific community who would be willing to do the hard work necessary to achieve this. But this is why many believe that Blacks are only good at entertaining them and why the society via Media , Hollywood , T.V. Advertisements , promote people with certain features as beautiful and desirable when that's not always the case. And it's not just in Europe. It's GLOBAL.
Samuel George Morton: An educated racist looking at skulls.
He's not the only one and there's no doubt that these attitudes were shared by many of his time. But he is the one who married Science and Hate , bred a deadly virus and injected it into the bloodstream of the American scientific community where they passed it along to the world infecting entire nations with a disease so devastating, that it has killed generations of innocent human beings and destroyed generations upon generations of human lives and it's effects are still being felt all the way to this very HOUR. I want to say something about him getting skull_____ in Hell, but I don't want to take away from the seriousness of this topic. Other racist "scientist" inspired by Morton include ; Samuel A. Cartwright, Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Robert Knox, Harry H. Laughlin and Madison Grant. Again , not uneducated and ignorant men. But, intellectual and esteemed....... scientists.
Google them.
We can't begin to talk about the next steps until we start here, and if we don't address the truth, we're not getting rid of Racism.