Bertrand Russell Quotes
It is sometimes maintained that racial mixture is biologically undesirable. There is no evidence whatever for this view. Nor is there, apparently, any reason to think that Negroes are congenitally less intelligent than white people, but as to that it will be difficult to judge until they have equal scope and equally good social conditions.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. This is a wonderful example of scientific thinking about a politically and emotionally charged subject.
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British Philosopher & Reformer, New Hopes for a Changing World, 1951
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Lawrence was one of the very advanced scientists of his time presaging Darwin on a few issues. But he erroneously believed that character and intellect were heretical capabilities. Intellect has been shown to be an inheritable trait to some extent (50-60 percent), but it is not racial per se. And character as we now know is not inherited.
Millard and other racists ignorant of the human genome and science do not even realize that the thing they fear has already occurred tens of thousands of years ago. All humans, Blacks, Whites, Indians, Asians whatever all people alive today share the genes of Lucy, the oldest human discovered—she was Black and all other races as well as Blacks are descended from her and her contemporaries.
This was the first major civil rights speech. He had previously in his political career tread carefully in the civil rights arena. The Southerners had disproportionate control over the Congressional committee chairmanships and they could hold up his entire legislative agenda. JFK’s father was a right wing fascist who supported Hitler earlier and always advised against pushing civil rights.
Note that Nixon attributed Rogers views on Blacks to the fact that Roers was from New York City which Nixon viewed as a hotbed of liberals and minorities. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups. The implication of the inbreeding is a high percentage of mental retardation. It was never been established that the Black slaves in America were inbred as they came from many different tribes and slave owners did not attempt to have slaves of a single or even two tribes. There was a great deal of diversity. If anything Southern Whites were in danger of inbreeding as it was the custom for many first cousins to marry. This was just another of Nixon’s hateful, racial remarks based on no foundation of fact.
Jessie Helms was his young assistant who drafted this race baiting ad. There are two vicious but subtle aspects to this kind of attach ads. First, not that the ad does not address the problem of white men working along side of blacks. It only refers to wives and daughter. This interracial sex innuendo played on and increased the fear of whites that Blacks would commonly rape white women. The second nasty aspect of the ad is the specific attack on the opponent. Instead of saying that he favored desegregation, the phrase “mingling of the races” was used which implied that Graham was in favor of biracial intermarriage and children—again another sex innuendo. When integration of the workforce finally occurred in the South, there was no increase in Black men sexually assaulting white women. There has been a substantial increase in racial intermarriage however as racial bigotry has diminished in America.
Note that Alabama not only had a law against miscegenation but with this constitution made it illegal for a legislature in the future to ever legalize miscegenation. After the Supreme Court made anti-miscegenation laws illegal, Alabama had to amend this part of its constitution.
Brigham Young, the Mormon Leader and Territorial Governor, was strongly opposed to Interracial sex. See {629150}. An earlier clause provided for loss of the rights to a slave if the master had sexual relations with the slave, something that no Southern State had ever done.
Rowan was primarily referring to the miscegenation that took place since Negro slavery in the Americas. Rape of slaves by white “masters” and their male relatives was common. In addition there have been interracial romantic relationships from the time Blacks were first in America. These have increased dramatically in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, he was slightly in error as he did not consider the origin of man, where science has traced the DNA of EVERY human on Earth back to a Black African female. Hence 100 percent of humans have “Negroid” blood in the sense that there has been inter-racial breeding in the past.
The minister was the leader of a sect that had emigrated from Germany to the new colony of George where slavery had been banned but wealthy planters were pointing to South Carolina north of them where slavery was producing riches for the slave owners and asking the Trustees back in England to allow slavery as they were at a competitive disadvantage. Oglethorpe, the leader of the community argued against slavery and was joined by other community leaders including Reverend Boltzius, The argued that slavery would curtail the opportunity for common white men. In this quote Boltzius pointed to Charlestown South Carolina to show the effect that slavery produced there. The wages for slaves, were wages paid to the slave’s owner. While plantation slavery was the most common form of slavery, but many slave owners without large plantations simply rented out his slaves. In some cases, the slaves were taught trades like carpentry so the owner could receive ore for his work. But the system allowed the slave owner to undercut the market, and all a white worker could make was the wage that slave owners were demanding for slave labor.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. Bertrand Russell was one of the most influential and widely known intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In 1950 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his “rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West.“
