Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense?
Mendeleev, Dmitri. Neftyanaya promyshlennost' v Severo-Amerikanskom shtate Pensil'vanii i na Kavkaze [The Petroleum Industry in the North American State of Pennsylvania and in the Caucasus]. Obshchestvennaya pol'za, 1877. Translated and quoted in Gordin, Michael D. A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table. Basic Books, 2004, p. 106.
The reason this historical quote is so important is not only that it provides more evidence of the anti-Asian racism that existed in America in the 1920s, but it also shows that The American Legion was one of the leaders in fomenting race hatred of Asians. The anti-Asian racism was much worse on the West Coast than on the East Coast where there was a thriving Chinese Community in New York City that was relatively un-harassed.
†he Congressman came under tremendous pressure from people all over the country including many political Republican colleagues. The next evening he appears on a CNN interview an apologized. What made his statement all the more absurd was that many of the protesters were upper and middle class people angry at yet another police killing of Black men—a pattern that had come to light in the [previous months. In addition, many of the demonstrators were white.
The 2016 election and campaigh was one of the most polarizing in American History, Hate and bigoted groups and individuals supported one of the candidates and some had a predelection towds voilence. Since the election of Abraham Lincoln, Amricans had not been so much at odds. Ironically, the concept of a library itslef produces a liberal institution whose values were at the time contrary to that of many populists who vieed intekkectual efferts as elitist and therfore opposed their existance in the public space.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes transliterated as Mendeleyev or Mendeleef) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements. He used the Periodic Law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of eight elements that were yet to be discovered.
