Darwin and the scientific support for racism

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You shall know them by their fruits…

It was clear he did not even consider people of African descent as “men” when he said “An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.” And thus he believed, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man (meaning Caucasians) will almost certainlyexterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes … will no doubt be exterminated. " (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 2nd edition, New York, A L. Burt Co., 1874, p. 178) Herbert Spencer‘s suggestions were merely a means to bringing this opinion to fruition.

"The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world" (Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, 1888. New York D. Appleton and Company, pp.285-286)…

Thomas Huxley once wrote, “No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.” (Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, 1871)

The standard intelligence of the average adult Negro is similar to that of the eleven-year-old youth of the species Homo sapiens” (Darwinian Anthropologist, Henry Osborne, “The Evolution of Human Races,”Natural History, Jan.-Feb. 1926). Clearly one can see this post-Ota Darwinian still believes whole heartedly that people of African descent are not viewed as being “homo-sapiens” but are of at the least, an entirely different species of homo.

Charles Darwin’s son Leonard was an avid follower of his father’s work they had many conversations discussing the details and implications of his theory. After daddy passed, Leonard went on to co- found The Eugenics Society and became its President from 1911 through 1928 and remained on board in an honorary position until 1943.

In the American Philosophical Society, Dav, B:D27., on Leonard Darwin, there is a letter from the German Society for Race Hygiene sent to Leonard Darwin about attending the International Commission for Eugenics.

His grandson Charles Galton Darwin has his legacy as well. He was a Eugenics Society life fellow, vice-president 1939, director 1939, president 1953–1959, committee 1960. And was the advisory editor (along with Josef Mengele’s mentor Von Verschuer) of the racist journal Mankind Quarterly.

Daniel Gasman, Scientific Origins of Nazism and Race Hygiene (1971) tells us of another of Darwin’s followers Dr. Alfred Ploetz in 1904, “…became one of the principal founders of the racially inspired eugenic journal, Archiv fur Rassen und Gesellschaftsbiologie. Among the editors were not only such future Nazi scientists as Eugen Fischer and Fritz Lenz, but also Ludwig Plate, a close colleague of Haeckel, a member of the Monist League, and the successor to Haeckel’s chair in zoology at the University of Jena. The first issue of the Archiv was dedicated to Haeckel and to August Weismann. In the articles of the journal, Haeckel’s name was constantly referred to; it is clear that the contributors regarded him as Germany’s major prophet of political biology, and one cannot avoid noticing the great weight which at all times was attached to his scientific authority, and to his ideas on politics and eugenics. The Archiv, which continued to be published right up through the Nazi period (until 1944), became one of the chief organs in Germany for the dissemination of eugenic ideas and provided a respectable scientific framework for Nazi writers…

In the Darwinian educator Margaret Sanger’s periodical “The Birth Control Review”. Ms. Sanger says…

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." She believed, "Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."

"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."

“We don't wantthe word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…"

Now some modern neo-Darwinians like Richard Dawkins do not want people to realize this, so they will claim this is a misquote of Darwin’s intent and that when Darwin refers to “race” he is referring to the human race and it is more akin to “species”, but Dawkins is clearly counting on the fact most of you will never read chapter 7 of the Descent of Man, where it is clear that Darwin speaks in terms of races of man (plural) making his belief in the naturally selected superiority of white people obvious. He also uses the idea of species quite readily so that we may know DARWIN is NOT making the two mean the same thing.

In recent times, the Office of Biological and Environmental Research’s Human Genome Program (2003) has concluded that genomic studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (in other words “races”) exist within modern humans(Darwin was clearly wrong on this point). While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another…People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other.”

Hallelujah! Just like Gould’s honesty with Geo Column evidence, genetics is finally demonstrating Charles Darwin was incorrect, and so weren’t his indoctrinated followers. But their political, as well as scientific, influence continued to bombard generations of innocently inquiring minds. When one is inundated for years with “Darwin is right!” Darwin…our scientific hero”! They are promoting a very subtle but still apparent form of institutionalized racism and sexism.

Darwin’s version of Evolution undoubtedly promotes and gives scientific reasoning to an underlying sexism as well. In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to the Sexes, (from the New York edition, 1879, pp. 563-565) he says, and I quote, “The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shewn by man’s attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman–whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands…We may also infer, from the law of the deviation from averages, so well-illustrated by Mr. Galton, in his work on ‘Hereditary Genius,’ that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in many subjects, the average of mental power in man must be above that of woman.” Note the sexism and support he lends to Francis Galton’s racist sexist eugenics notions that are based on his (Darwin’s) own work?

See if you can’t further sense the racism and sexism rooted in his overall character…

In The Descent of Man he revealed his pseudo-scientific distain for women when he wrote, “The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shewn by man’s attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman–whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands…We may also infer, from the law of the deviation from averages, so well-illustrated by Mr. Galton, in his work on ‘Hereditary Genius,’ that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in many subjects, the average of mental power in man must be above that of woman.”

In this excerpt from a personal letter he wrote to a friend regarding his brother Erasmus’s possible wedlock to the fair Harriet Martineau, a French female of doubtful purity (as far as Charles was concerned). In Letter 321 of the Darwin Correspondence Project, a publication of Darwin’s personal letters, he writes:

"Erasmus is just returned from driving out Miss Martineau…Our only protection from so admirable a sister-in-law is in her working him too hard. He begins to perceive, he shall be not much better than her '[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]'… Imagine poor Erasmus a ^^^(Darwin uses the N word) to so philosophical & energetic a lady…How pale & woe begone he will look.. She already takes him to task about his idleness…She is going someday to explain to him her notions about marriage…Perfect equality of rights is part of her doctrine. I much doubt whether it will be equality in practice. We must pray for our poor '^^^ (Darwin again uses the N word)'."

At the 1904, St. Louis World’s Fair, in the Anthropology wing, right here in America, over four decades after “The Emancipation Proclamation”, the neo-Darwinians featured “Ota Benga”, a captured and enslaved male Pigmy!

They had the poor man on caged display as proof of the alleged Darwinian based crossover from ape to man! Mr. Benga’s nick-name at home, which he had been so heinously snatched from, leaving his wife and children to starve, meant “friend”. And by the way, Ota was never again allowed to see them and was kept caged until he finally ended his own miserable life as an alleged half ape, half man. One of Darwin’s anthropomorphous apes no doubt but clearly not homo sapien!

Yes, here in the alleged “land of the free and home of the brave”, among the overseers and perpetuators of the neo-Darwinian philosophical worldview, creatures like OTA (actually a man) was an appropriate display item. Poor Ota was advertised to be a bona fide living halfmonkey half man, an opinion fully supported by the Darwinian Anthropologists and Evolutionary Biologists at the time and founded squarely on the principles of Darwin’s theory of evolution! They had this poor man locked in one cage after another for nearly 23 years! He was enslaved as part of their neo-Darwinian media pushed missing-link propaganda campaign. They had poor Ota on display from place to place even during the ACLU’s carefully engineered, “Scopes Trial”.

The brainwashed Caucasian children willingly made fun of poor Ota, jeering at him through the cage bars, throwing stones, peanuts, and bananas at the so-called monkey-man. Their Caucasian parents would laugh as well as he dodged, hid, or made angry gestures for them to please stop! These easily persuaded and entertained Caucasian adults would model real Darwinized maturity and ethics for their children by staring amazed holding him up as sure proof, and the more ignorant would jump up and down scratching their ribs and grunting. After all, they were convinced it was the genetically superior white man’s privilege to rule these alleged half-apes. And it must be true because their scientists and now their teachers were telling them that it was. But was it? Besides, it was all in good fun, right? I mean after all, who did it really hurt? I am being rhetorical of course.

But why didn’t this alleged human rights group (the ACLU) come to Ota’s defense? Oh that’s right they also are neo-Darwinians. But wasn’t this well after slavery was allegedly abolished? Oh yes! But after all, Ota was only half-human…right? One of Sanger’s “dysgenic stock”! So in their thinking this was not slavery or kidnapping because these only speak of human beings, which he obviously was not (according to Darwin who was so obviously correct). He was considered an anthropomorphic ape and nothing more. Hmmm!?! Yes, right here in America! Oh yeah, eventually poor Ota preferred to commit suicide! I can’t say that I blame the poor guy. I know who and what really is to blame, but I wish you would finally get it! So let me ask you a question? Are you as utterly appalled by this as I am?

For more information look at The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914, byAlfred Kelly (University of North Carolina Press,1981) and From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany,Richard Weikart (Macmillan, New York, 2004).

Acceptance of Darwin and his pseudo-science continues to enhance a subtle institutional racism and sexism and it is unknowingly being perpetrated through public school indoctrination. Should this man be held up by public schools as a hero in any form?
 
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You shall know them by their fruits…

It was clear he did not even consider people of African descent as “men” when he said “An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
You seem to have left a couple of words word out of this quotation: "An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy..." An Ateles is a spider monkey. Why did you think he was talking about African Americans? Did you edit the quotation, or did you take it from someone else?
 
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Also, are you sure that discrediting ideas by associating them with racism is really a good approach? Glass houses and all . . .

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Even though Charles Darwin wrote book after book, it's pretty telling that pshun has to turn to quotes of people other than Darwin. pshun does a good job of showing, by his own failure, that Darwin's racism was less than those of other of his day. The facts that Darwin vocally and repeatedly argued that all races were human, from the same line of descent, and that slavery was therefore immoral and unjustifiable, both show that Charles Darwin was a force against the racism of his day.

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Yep, Darwin was as racist (and as sexist) as Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, he abhorred slavery, but took white and male superiority for granted. He was much less racist than his contemporary, Louis Agassiz, who could not abide the idea that whites and blacks had a common origin and so supported polygenism (the idea that each human "race" was created independently of the others.

It is notable, as well, that Darwin never set a value judgement on what he considered the inevitable disappearance of "inferior" races. He never says this is a good thing; he may even have considered it regrettable. But he did think it unavoidable.
 
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Yes it was common in those days to believe in both....(sorry I do not know of any spider monkeys that drink brandy). Darwin himself may not have been any more or less racist than most aristocratic Caucasians in his day, but the OP was to look at the fruit it produced in the belief of those who adhered to his theory...(some were close relatives)...
 
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(sorry I do not know of any spider monkeys that drink brandy).
Since that's what Darwin was talking about -- now you do.

But you didn't answer my question: where did you get the idea that Darwin was talking about humans with the comment about brandy? And where did you get the wording of the quotation, since that's not what Darwin actually wrote?
 
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.... but the OP was to look at the fruit it produced in the belief of those who adhered to his theory....

Whoa, pshun, are you sure we want to go there? If we look at harmful beliefs, and then to what people used in support of those harmful beliefs, then our Holy Scriptures are the ones that come up again and again.

For instance, racists have used Genesis for centuries to support both racism and slavery (the curse of Ham, "cush", etc.). In the 1800's American history is riddled with speeches by people like Jefferson Davis showing their use of both the Old and New Testaments to support slavery and racism - including examples like the KKK image given above.

The same goes for the subjugation of women, treatment of Native Americans, and so on.

That's not to mention the extensive use of Darwin's common descent to elevate the rights of all humans and better treatment of other animals. Heck, the trends in violence since Darwin have been all good - less murder, rape, assault, child labor, slavery, etc. Those improvements aren't generally a direct result of Darwin's book, but if, as you state, we are to look at results after publication to judge the ideas, then Darwin comes out looking better than our Holy Scriptures.

That's why, from a Christian standpoint, I think it's better to just avoid that whole approach of your OP.

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Yes it was common in those days to believe in both....(sorry I do not know of any spider monkeys that drink brandy). Darwin himself may not have been any more or less racist than most aristocratic Caucasians in his day, but the OP was to look at the fruit it produced in the belief of those who adhered to his theory...(some were close relatives)...

Ah, but how do you tell which is the root and which is the fruit? Three hundred years before the publication of Origin of Species, Europeans were debating whether Native Americans were even human. And even those who supported the affirmative, still supported the enslavement of non-Christians (which, in those days took in pretty much everyone who was not European). So racism was endemic in the Christian European mindset long before evolution was. And often justified in terms of scripture and Christian theology.

There is no way one can claim that racism is a fruit of evolution. The most one can claim is that those who were already racist chose to interpret evolution to favour their position.

We can also add that a better understanding of evolution has removed any biological grounds for racism, as it has shown there are no true races (i.e. varieties or sub-species) among Homo sapiens.
 
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You seem to have left a couple of words word out of this quotation: "An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy..." An Ateles is a spider monkey. Why did you think he was talking about African Americans? Did you edit the quotation, or did you take it from someone else?

Actually I got it from

http://www.unionoffaiths.com/article5_5.html

but left out the ... my mistake....still, do Ateles get drunk on brandy so someone could actually observe that they would not do it again? However I stand corrected on this quote...you are correct. But what of his fruit?

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world."

Expressed as an applied principle in Hunter's A Civic Biology around a decade later (a grade school textbook for American children)...Hunter (a strict Darwinian) says

" “At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.” (emphasis mine)

Can you see the emphasis on types of people graduating in levels of evolution, the highest of which are Caucasians? So you think this is correct?
 
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Actually I got it from

http://www.unionoffaiths.com/article5_5.html

but left out the ... my mistake....still, do Ateles get drunk on brandy so someone could actually observe that they would not do it again? However I stand corrected on this quote...you are correct. But what of his fruit?

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world."

Expressed as an applied principle in Hunter's A Civic Biology around a decade later (a grade school textbook for American children)...Hunter (a strict Darwinian) says

" “At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.” (emphasis mine)

Can you see the emphasis on types of people graduating in levels of evolution, the highest of which are Caucasians? So you think this is correct?

Of course, it is not correct. But this was pretty standard thinking among European and Americans at the time. Remember the idea of higher and lower "races" or "varieties" of humans was ingrained in the culture for quite some time before Darwin was even born. So this is not an example of evolutionary theory giving rise to racism. It is a matter of racists using their understanding of evolutionary theory to give their beliefs "scientific" respectability. Just as creationists often try to find modern science in scripture to give the bible "scientific" respectability.

And, unfortunately, it is not difficult to find racism in textbooks even much more recent than Hunter's. As late as the 1950's my Grade 5 social studies text referred to Native Americans as "savages".

These things are not right, but they were not a fruit of evolutionary theory. Rather evolutionary theory entered a world in which racism was taken for granted, and so was interpreted through that lens. It is more a matter of confirmation bias than a consequence of evolutionary theory. Racists cherry-picked aspects of evolutionary theory that seemed to confirm their beliefs.
 
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You shall know them by their fruits…

It was clear he did not even consider people of African descent as “men” when he said “An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.” And thus he believed, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man (meaning Caucasians) will almost certainlyexterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes … will no doubt be exterminated. " (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 2nd edition, New York, A L. Burt Co., 1874, p. 178) Herbert Spencer‘s suggestions were merely a means to bringing this opinion to fruition.

"The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world" (Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, 1888. New York D. Appleton and Company, pp.285-286)…

Thomas Huxley once wrote, “No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.” (Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, 1871)

The standard intelligence of the average adult Negro is similar to that of the eleven-year-old youth of the species Homo sapiens” (Darwinian Anthropologist, Henry Osborne, “The Evolution of Human Races,”Natural History, Jan.-Feb. 1926). Clearly one can see this post-Ota Darwinian still believes whole heartedly that people of African descent are not viewed as being “homo-sapiens” but are of at the least, an entirely different species of homo.

Charles Darwin’s son Leonard was an avid follower of his father’s work they had many conversations discussing the details and implications of his theory. After daddy passed, Leonard went on to co- found The Eugenics Society and became its President from 1911 through 1928 and remained on board in an honorary position until 1943.

In the American Philosophical Society, Dav, B:D27., on Leonard Darwin, there is a letter from the German Society for Race Hygiene sent to Leonard Darwin about attending the International Commission for Eugenics.

His grandson Charles Galton Darwin has his legacy as well. He was a Eugenics Society life fellow, vice-president 1939, director 1939, president 1953–1959, committee 1960. And was the advisory editor (along with Josef Mengele’s mentor Von Verschuer) of the racist journal Mankind Quarterly.

Daniel Gasman, Scientific Origins of Nazism and Race Hygiene (1971) tells us of another of Darwin’s followers Dr. Alfred Ploetz in 1904, “…became one of the principal founders of the racially inspired eugenic journal, Archiv fur Rassen und Gesellschaftsbiologie. Among the editors were not only such future Nazi scientists as Eugen Fischer and Fritz Lenz, but also Ludwig Plate, a close colleague of Haeckel, a member of the Monist League, and the successor to Haeckel’s chair in zoology at the University of Jena. The first issue of the Archiv was dedicated to Haeckel and to August Weismann. In the articles of the journal, Haeckel’s name was constantly referred to; it is clear that the contributors regarded him as Germany’s major prophet of political biology, and one cannot avoid noticing the great weight which at all times was attached to his scientific authority, and to his ideas on politics and eugenics. The Archiv, which continued to be published right up through the Nazi period (until 1944), became one of the chief organs in Germany for the dissemination of eugenic ideas and provided a respectable scientific framework for Nazi writers…

In the Darwinian educator Margaret Sanger’s periodical “The Birth Control Review”. Ms. Sanger says…

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." She believed, "Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."

"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives."

“We don't wantthe word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…"

Now some modern neo-Darwinians like Richard Dawkins do not want people to realize this, so they will claim this is a misquote of Darwin’s intent and that when Darwin refers to “race” he is referring to the human race and it is more akin to “species”, but Dawkins is clearly counting on the fact most of you will never read chapter 7 of the Descent of Man, where it is clear that Darwin speaks in terms of races of man (plural) making his belief in the naturally selected superiority of white people obvious. He also uses the idea of species quite readily so that we may know DARWIN is NOT making the two mean the same thing.

In recent times, the Office of Biological and Environmental Research’s Human Genome Program (2003) has concluded that genomic studies do not indicate that separate classifiable subspecies (in other words “races”) exist within modern humans(Darwin was clearly wrong on this point). While different genes for physical traits such as skin and hair color can be identified between individuals, no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another…People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other.”

Hallelujah! Just like Gould’s honesty with Geo Column evidence, genetics is finally demonstrating Charles Darwin was incorrect, and so weren’t his indoctrinated followers. But their political, as well as scientific, influence continued to bombard generations of innocently inquiring minds. When one is inundated for years with “Darwin is right!” Darwin…our scientific hero”! They are promoting a very subtle but still apparent form of institutionalized racism and sexism.

Darwin’s version of Evolution undoubtedly promotes and gives scientific reasoning to an underlying sexism as well. In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to the Sexes, (from the New York edition, 1879, pp. 563-565) he says, and I quote, “The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shewn by man’s attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman–whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands…We may also infer, from the law of the deviation from averages, so well-illustrated by Mr. Galton, in his work on ‘Hereditary Genius,’ that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in many subjects, the average of mental power in man must be above that of woman.” Note the sexism and support he lends to Francis Galton’s racist sexist eugenics notions that are based on his (Darwin’s) own work?

See if you can’t further sense the racism and sexism rooted in his overall character…

In The Descent of Man he revealed his pseudo-scientific distain for women when he wrote, “The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shewn by man’s attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman–whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands…We may also infer, from the law of the deviation from averages, so well-illustrated by Mr. Galton, in his work on ‘Hereditary Genius,’ that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in many subjects, the average of mental power in man must be above that of woman.”

In this excerpt from a personal letter he wrote to a friend regarding his brother Erasmus’s possible wedlock to the fair Harriet Martineau, a French female of doubtful purity (as far as Charles was concerned). In Letter 321 of the Darwin Correspondence Project, a publication of Darwin’s personal letters, he writes:

"Erasmus is just returned from driving out Miss Martineau…Our only protection from so admirable a sister-in-law is in her working him too hard. He begins to perceive, he shall be not much better than her '[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]'… Imagine poor Erasmus a ^^^(Darwin uses the N word) to so philosophical & energetic a lady…How pale & woe begone he will look.. She already takes him to task about his idleness…She is going someday to explain to him her notions about marriage…Perfect equality of rights is part of her doctrine. I much doubt whether it will be equality in practice. We must pray for our poor '^^^ (Darwin again uses the N word)'."

At the 1904, St. Louis World’s Fair, in the Anthropology wing, right here in America, over four decades after “The Emancipation Proclamation”, the neo-Darwinians featured “Ota Benga”, a captured and enslaved male Pigmy!

They had the poor man on caged display as proof of the alleged Darwinian based crossover from ape to man! Mr. Benga’s nick-name at home, which he had been so heinously snatched from, leaving his wife and children to starve, meant “friend”. And by the way, Ota was never again allowed to see them and was kept caged until he finally ended his own miserable life as an alleged half ape, half man. One of Darwin’s anthropomorphous apes no doubt but clearly not homo sapien!

Yes, here in the alleged “land of the free and home of the brave”, among the overseers and perpetuators of the neo-Darwinian philosophical worldview, creatures like OTA (actually a man) was an appropriate display item. Poor Ota was advertised to be a bona fide living halfmonkey half man, an opinion fully supported by the Darwinian Anthropologists and Evolutionary Biologists at the time and founded squarely on the principles of Darwin’s theory of evolution! They had this poor man locked in one cage after another for nearly 23 years! He was enslaved as part of their neo-Darwinian media pushed missing-link propaganda campaign. They had poor Ota on display from place to place even during the ACLU’s carefully engineered, “Scopes Trial”.

The brainwashed Caucasian children willingly made fun of poor Ota, jeering at him through the cage bars, throwing stones, peanuts, and bananas at the so-called monkey-man. Their Caucasian parents would laugh as well as he dodged, hid, or made angry gestures for them to please stop! These easily persuaded and entertained Caucasian adults would model real Darwinized maturity and ethics for their children by staring amazed holding him up as sure proof, and the more ignorant would jump up and down scratching their ribs and grunting. After all, they were convinced it was the genetically superior white man’s privilege to rule these alleged half-apes. And it must be true because their scientists and now their teachers were telling them that it was. But was it? Besides, it was all in good fun, right? I mean after all, who did it really hurt? I am being rhetorical of course.

But why didn’t this alleged human rights group (the ACLU) come to Ota’s defense? Oh that’s right they also are neo-Darwinians. But wasn’t this well after slavery was allegedly abolished? Oh yes! But after all, Ota was only half-human…right? One of Sanger’s “dysgenic stock”! So in their thinking this was not slavery or kidnapping because these only speak of human beings, which he obviously was not (according to Darwin who was so obviously correct). He was considered an anthropomorphic ape and nothing more. Hmmm!?! Yes, right here in America! Oh yeah, eventually poor Ota preferred to commit suicide! I can’t say that I blame the poor guy. I know who and what really is to blame, but I wish you would finally get it! So let me ask you a question? Are you as utterly appalled by this as I am?

For more information look at The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914, byAlfred Kelly (University of North Carolina Press,1981) and From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany,Richard Weikart (Macmillan, New York, 2004).

Acceptance of Darwin and his pseudo-science continues to enhance a subtle institutional racism and sexism and it is unknowingly being perpetrated through public school indoctrination. Should this man be held up by public schools as a hero in any form?
amen!!!!! it is the doctrines of demons ! and it is the foundation now of this twisted and perverted society.
they give this so called education away free but it isn't worth the price .
 
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amen!!!!! it is the doctrines of demons ! and it is the foundation now of this twisted and perverted society.
they give this so called education away free but it isn't worth the price .
No, it really isn't. Somehow, good Christian Americans and Englishmen and Spaniards (etc) managed to create a brutally twisted and perverted racist society long before Darwin.
 
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No, it really isn't. Somehow, good Christian Americans and Englishmen and Spaniards (etc) managed to create a brutally twisted and perverted racist society long before Darwin.
it was all the same people!
those in rebellion to both ancient and biblical laws......
aka the Lawless and Rebellious! the anti--? crew
 
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Considering this is the full title of his book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life", it is pretty clear what he meant.

Exactly, especially when you realize that races back then was synonemous with species, and had nothing to do with humans, as he didn't link evolution to humans till his second book.
 
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No, it really isn't. Somehow, good Christian Americans and Englishmen and Spaniards (etc) managed to create a brutally twisted and perverted racist society long before Darwin.

European empire was to some extent founded on an understanding of racial identity but so also on a view of Christianity and civilisation. Basically my tribe is better than yours cause you worship false gods and are barbarians. The breaking of various evil empires around the world was positive fruit from this. Too many Europeans drew the wrong conclusion of genetic racial superiority rather than of religiously superior cultures.
 
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