Martin Amis Quotes

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.

Clark’s men had English Colonel Hamilton under siege by making him think there were many more Americans in Clarks army than the real 180 or so. He tried to get Hamilton to surrender by threatening if they had to take the fort they would treat Hamilton and the British as murderers—Hamilton had paid hostile Indians for American scalps. At that point a party of Clark’s men arrived with 4 or 5 Indian prisoners who had been captured raiding
civilian farms. After the Indians were executed, Hamilton agreed to surrender.

The Newspaper acknowledged that the conquest of Mexico was tantamount to a rape, but the editors were convinced that the Mexicans would be very happy once they were in the American orbit. In almost every case in American history where we invaded and occupied a country, the political leadership, most of Congress, and many American citizens were convinced that American freedom and democracy were so much better than any other form of government that the conquered people would not only welcome the Americans but would voluntarily reorganize their governmental structures to have a democracy. While there were always some people in each country who did feel that way, the majority rarely did, much to American surprise.

Russell like the rest of the Southern Congressional delegation, though members of the President’s own party were vehemently opposed to any civil rights legislation that would erode the legal racism and segregation that was prevalent in the South. The irony of Russell’s statement is that by Russell’s definition of a “mongrel race” the South was just that. And in a very real genetic sense all the great civilizations were characterized by interbreeding which is what Russell and other Southerners were paranoid about. The Southern institution of slavery was rife with the sexual abuse of the female slaves by the white masters and/or members of their family, overseers and other whites with power over the slaves. While many of the offspring were identifiable as mixed race (defined as Black by the laws at the time) many appeared to be white and light skinned enough to “pass” and did. A very large percentage of Southern white and black families had mixed blood in the family when Russell was complaining. More to the point, although it was not known at the time, we now know that every human being on earth can be genetically traced back through myocardial DNA to Blacks emanating from Africa. However, even using his narrow vision of race, his history was wanting. A number of great civilizations were of mixed race. One dramatic example was the great dynasties of Egypt. Cleopatra, herself, was from the union of Alexander the Great’s Greek General Ptolemy and the traditional line of Egyptian Pharos. Alexander’s Greek Soldiers interbred, as part of Alexander’s policy of occupation as suggested by Aristotle. All those societies thereafter were “mongrel” races at least in the ruling and upper classes. Actually the United States and the Soviet Union, the two super powers of the day both were ethnically and racially, highly diversified and both had a great deal of miscegenation. Scientists had made a very good argument that miscegenation strengthens a people—not weakens it.

This is a very interesting quotation because it shows that the South American Indians were not only the victims of Spanish colonialism, but before Europeans ever set foot in the New World, expansionism, conquest and colonialism was alive and well. It was just that one Indian people imposed it on others. Note also the techniques of sending colonists to the new colonies to “civilize” the conquered peoples. Although this was common in Western History (even Alexander the Great used it, it was independently created as a colonial technique in the New World. The most extensive use of this technique was used by the Russians as that expanded to the Soviet Union the consequences of which we see in ethnic strife in the Balkans and the Ukraine even into the 21st century. Often these colonists were used as spies as well, in Peru {641657} as in all the Western examples.

Sexual abuse of female slaves was very common in the American South. See {642027} and {642028}. In the 1930s over 2,300 formerly enslaved African Americans were interviewed by members of the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal agency in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. This particular abuse was one of the most common reported. Ironically, the Southern justification for segregation and prohibition of inter-marriage even through the 1950s, was to prevent the great “crime” of miscegenation which white slave owners and their male friends committed by raping and sexually exploiting the female slaves. Today, as DNA analysis shows, most traditional Southern “white” families have recent Negroes in their ancestry.

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.