William Lee Howard Quotes
When education will reduce the large size of the Negro’s penis, as well as bring about the sensitiveness of the terminal fibers which exist in the Caucasian, then will it also be able to prevent the African’s birthright to sexual madness and excess.
This is but one of the quotations of someone who was a major force in perpetuating the old slavery era myth that “Negros” were not only inferior to whites, but they were unable to develop morality or repress their sexual urges. Dr. Howard was generally castigated by his professional colleagues, but he was quite popular with the general public for whom he wrote a number of books and magazine articles.
William Lee Howard, “The Negro as a Distinct Ethnic Factor in Civilization,” Medicine 9 (1903): 423-26
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The other Southern States had similar legal principles while still maintaining the hypocrisy that their legal system was grounded on Christian morality.
Johnson was the first Black man who won the heavyweight championship at a time when racism in America was rampant. Many whites referred to Jeffries as “The Great White Hope” who would take the champion back for the whites. He didn’t and was beaten badly.
This quotation provides us with several important insights in American history. First, the Director of the FBI was an inveterate racist. Second, he felt no inhibition on sharing this discriminatory view with the Media. Third, he is yet another source for the fact that Blacks did not have a decent opportunity to get an education. There were some Southerners who maintained that they did have such an opportunity in the “Separate but Equal” segregated schools systems of the South. Hoover was not the only racist in the upper ranks of the FBI; most of the leadership was prejudiced. See {620621} and {74219} .
In that year he resigned from the War Department in protest of the discrimination and racism in the armed forces.
It was indeed the first government that was ever founded on that fallacious principle. In retrospect, it was amazing that more Southerners did not question why no other government in the history of the world based a society on that principle. The Southern hubris was a great failing for them.
Stevens, a man so committed to racial equality that he was buried in a Negro cemetery, but he was a practical politician and realized that racial prejudice was so great that social equality was a much more contentious issue than was slave emancipation.
In the 1940’s equality and Civil Rights was a good wedge issue for Republicans because the most racist members of Congress were Democrats even though there were many Democrats who advocated strong civil rights. In 1964, there was a party realignment after the Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. After that the most racist members of Congress and the political established switched to the Republican Party and this caused the Republicans to publicly soft pedal civil rights issues. It now became a wedge issue for the democrats, and very few national Republican figures would make such a statement as it would be misinterpreted by the racial right wing of the party.
Qutb was studying at Greeley College and with some Egyptian friends want to a movie theater. Greeley, even though not in the South, practiced racial discrimination in many of their public accommodations and the Civil Rights Law would not be passed for another 15 years or so. The ticked clerk at first would not sell tickets to the dark skinned Egyptians and when one protested, the owner was called. He ruled that as long as they were not American Blacks, they could enter. But Qutb refused.
1860-1918 He was a Baltimore physician who used pseudo-science to “demonstrate” that Negro’s were not only inferior to whites, but they were unable to develop morality or repress their sexual urges. He was generally castigated even then by his professional colleagues, but was quite popular with the general public for whom he wrote a number of books and magazine articles almost all dealing with sexual issues. He is an important factor in American history because he was one of the major factors in perpetuating, and giving a professional veneer, to the mythology about Black male sexuality including the predilection to rape.
