posted November 21, 2007 07:17 AM              

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"Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased." - C.S. Lewis

posted November 21, 2007 11:39 AM              

wouldn't have believed it if i hadn't seen it. but my naivete often gets the better of me.

the thoughts there though, are very expressive of current sentiments very alive and well today, throughout society.

posted November 21, 2007 11:52 AM              

President Coolidge signs the 1924 immigration act, restricting non Northern European immigration. John J. Pershing is on the President's right.

In the USA, the primary spokesman for Nordicism was the eugenicist Madison Grant. His 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race, or the Racial Basis of European History about Nordicism was highly influential among racial thinking and government policy making.[26] Grant used the theory as a justification for anti-immigration policies of the 1920s, arguing that the immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe represented a lesser type of European and their numbers in the United States should not be increased. Grant and others urged this as well as the complete restriction of non-Europeans, such as the Chinese and Japanese. Grant argued that the Nordic race had been responsible for most of humanity's great achievements, that "admixture" was "race suicide", and that unless various eugenic policies were enacted, the Nordic race would be supplanted by the inferior races. Future president Calvin Coolidge agreed, stating that "Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides."[27] Eugenicists supported the Immigration Act of 1924, which was passed during Coolidge's presidency with his support. This was designed to reduce the number of Eastern and Southern European immigrants, exclude Asian immigrants altogether, and favor immigration from Northern and Western European countries.

The spread of these ideas also affected popular culture. F. Scott Fitzgerald invokes Grant's ideas through a character in part of The Great Gatsby, and Hilaire Belloc jokingly rhapsodied the "Nordic man" in a poem and essay in which he satirised the stereotypes of Nordics, Alpines and Mediterraneans.[28] Writers such as Jack London, Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft reflected Nordicist ideas in their fictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordicism

posted November 21, 2007 01:37 PM              

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Ron Paul is getting support and funding from Neo Nazis and white power groups

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Ron Paul is getting support from people across the entire nation!
Millions of dollars have been raised via internet from a multitude of websites, certainly $500 dollars from a piece of trash here and there will happen...

This country is filled with racisim even today. These people do vote as well...
This candidate is the peoples choice.

This does NOT mean that Ron Paul supports rasicm or groups of this nature. This guy is Honest and upfront about ALL of his campaign donations having them posted online immediately for the whole world to view. Are any other candidates doing this? NOPE! -Wonder why?

posted November 21, 2007 04:10 PM              

Dear Congressman Paul:

Your Presidential campaign has drawn the enthusiastic support of an imposing collection of Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Holocaust Deniers, 9/11 "Truthers" and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists.

Do you welcome- or repudiate - the support of such factions?

More specifically, your columns have been featured for several years in the American Free Press -a publication of the nation's leading Holocaust Denier and anti-Semitic agitator, Willis Carto. His book club even recommends works that glorify the Nazi SS, and glowingly describe the "comforts and amenities" provided for inmates of Auschwitz.

Have your columns appeared in the American Free Press with your knowledge and approval?

As a Presidential candidate, will you now disassociate yourself, clearly and publicly, from the poisonous propaganda promoted in such publications?

As a guest on my syndicated radio show, you answered my questions directly and fearlessly.

Will you now answer these pressing questions, and eliminate all associations between your campaign and some of the most loathsome fringe groups in American society?

Along with my listeners (and many of your own supporters), I eagerly await your response.

Respectfully, Michael Medved

Medved has received no official response from the Paul campaign.

There is more. The Texas-based Lone Star Times October 25 publicly requested a response to questions about whether the Paul campaign would repudiate and reject a $500 donation from white supremacist Stormfront.org founder Don Black and end the Stormfront website fundraising for Paul. The Times article lit up the conservative blogosphere for the next week. Paul supporters packed internet comment boards alternately denouncing or excusing the charges. Most politicians are quick to distance themselves from such disreputable donations when they are discovered. Not Paul.

Daniel Siederaski of the Jewish Telegraph Agency tried to get an interview with Paul, calling him repeatedly but not receiving any return calls. Wrote Siederaski November 9: "Ron Paul will take money from Nazis. But he won’t take telephone calls from Jews." [Update] Finally on November 13 the Paul campaign responded. In a short interview JTA quotes Jim Perry, head of Jews for Paul describing his work on the Paul campaign along side a self-described white supremacist which Perry says he has reformed.

Racist ties exposed in the Times article go far beyond a single donation. Just below links to information about the "BOK KKK Ohio State Meeting", and the "BOK KKK Pennsylvania State Meeting", Stormfront.org website announced: "Ron Paul for President" and "Countdown to the 5th of November". The links take readers directly to a Ron Paul fundraising site from which they can click into the official Ron Paul 2008 donation page on the official campaign site. Like many white supremacists, Stormfront has ties to white prison gangs...

On October 11 Stormfront Radio endorsed Ron Paul for President saying:

"Whatever organization you belong to, remember first and foremost that you're a white nationalist, then put aside your differences with one another and work together. Work together to strive to get someone in the Oval Office who agrees with much of what we want for our future. Look at the man, look at the issues, look at our future. Vote for Ron Paul, 2008."

As of November 11--the Ron Paul donation link is still up and active on Stormfront. No IP address has been blocked. Stormfront's would-be stormtroopers are still encouraged to contribute to Paul's campaign.

The white supremacists do more than raise funds. Blogger Adam Holland reports:

"one of Rep. Paul's top internet organizers in Tennessee is a neo-Nazi leader named Will Williams (aka ‘White Will'). Williams was the southern coordinator for William Pierce's National Alliance Party, the largest neo-Nazi party in the U.S."

Pierce is author of the racist "Turner Diaries".

When the Lone Star Times exposed the $500 Don Black donation, Williams responded on the national Ron Paul meetup site,

"Must Dr. Paul capitulate to our Jewish masters' demands?"

The mild responses to Williams' MeetUp post make a sharp contrast to the hatred and invective with which Paul supporters respond to Medved or any other writer questioning Paul's refusal to disassociate himself from his racist supporters. Any other campaign would presume Williams' expression of anti-Semitism was a dirty trick by an opposing campaign. Williams would have been hurriedly denounced and booted out of the campaign. Not Ron Paul.

posted November 21, 2007 05:40 PM              

This in itself shows that a great portion of his campaign is done by independant people and by word of mouth. Be it on the streets or online.

posted November 21, 2007 06:12 PM              

On the white-supremacist Vanguard News Network, Williams links to Paul's "grassroots" fundraising site and organizes other racists to "game You Tube" to advance a specific Ron Paul video to the top of You Tube's rankings. Writes Williams, "Everybody here can do this, except bjb w/his niggerberry." Holland points out, "BJB" stands for "burn Jew burn". BJB's internet signature is, "Nothing says lovin' like a Jew in the oven."

Williams is not Paul's only supremacist supporter. "Former" KKK leader (and convicted fraudster) David Duke's website http://www.whitecivilrights.com/, calls Ron Paul "our king" and cheers while "Ron Paul Hits a Home Run on Jay Leno Show." Duke also includes a "Ron Paul campaign update" and plugs Ron Paul fundraising efforts. These articles are posted right next to articles such as "Ten reasons why the Holocaust is a fraud" and "Germans Still Remember their Historical Greatness"-featuring a map of Hitler's Third Reich at its 1942 military height, just in case anybody doesn't get the point. Apparently "Dr. Paul's positive agenda for freedom" is attractive to those who ape the world's worst tyrants and genocidaires.

There are others. In a You Tube video circulating the internet, Ron Paul is endorsed by Hutton Gibson, a leading Holocaust denier and father of controversial actor and director Mel Gibson.

Ron Paul is supported by Patrick Buchanan, whose website carries videos and articles such as: "Ron Paul epiphany" and "Ron Paul a new hope." Buchanan has a long history of remarks some call anti-Semitic (see link). Ron Unz, editor of Buchanan's American Conservative magazine, is a Paul contributor and may have helped raise money from Silicon Valley sources.

it appears though, that he will continue to accept their support, their hatred of hispanics, blacks, jews, et al....that they feel that his presidency would validate.

as one "stormfront" poster so eloquently states,

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Same-old, same-old tired Jew scam that the ADL is also trying. First Dr. Paul must 'repudiate' the eeevil racists, anti-semites, facists, etc., then he must 'apologize' for all that he did to 'earn' their support at which time his accusers will triumphantly declare him GUILTY. Guilty of what? Guilty of everything. If you apologize for something then you MUST be guilty. Doesn't look like Dr. Paul is going for the Jew sucker-bait though...

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and as this article demonstrates,

When some in a crowd of anti-war activists meeting at Democrat National Committee HQ in June, 2005 suggested Israel was behind the 9-11 attacks, DNC Chair Howard Dean was quick to get behind the microphones and denounce them saying: "such statements are nothing but vile, anti-Semitic rhetoric."

When KKK leader David Duke switched parties to run for Louisiana governor as a Republican in 1991, then-President George H W Bush responded sharply, saying, "When someone asserts the Holocaust never took place, then I don't believe that person ever deserves one iota of public trust. When someone has so recently endorsed Nazism, it is inconceivable that someone can reasonably aspire to a leadership role in a free society."

Ron Paul is different.

posted November 21, 2007 06:48 PM              

CONCERNING WHITE NATIONALIST STRATEGY TOWARD OTHER RACES.

Proposition zero. White Nationalists intend to coexist peacefully with, and separately from, other races

Proposition one. Members of other races shall not be permitted to reside in White Homelands, even peacefully. Persistent incursions shall be considered an act of war.

Proposition two. White Nationalists shall not encroach upon the Homelands of other races.

Proposition three. White Nationalists may trade knowledge and goods with other races, or may refuse to so trade, as they see fit.

Proposition four. Other races who do not encroach upon White Homelands shall be treated with justice and courtesy.

Proposition five. White Nationalists shall sincerely strive to avoid or resolve conflicts between Whites and other races, so long as those conflicts are not caused by incursion upon White Homelands.

Comment: Whites are not to interfere in conflicts between third parties

Proposition six. All White Nationalists everywhere are obliged to aid in the expulsion of other races from a White Homeland, even if they do not reside in that Homeland.

posted November 21, 2007 07:38 PM              

white supremacy

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Ron Earnest Paul

The two are very different indeed...

posted November 21, 2007 08:17 PM              

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Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

"Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said.

Paul also wrote that although "we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers."

Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, "By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government" and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.

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according to an interview with Texas Monthly, these words are from his staff members. question....why does he hire these sorts of staffers to write words from his own mouth, and why does he not refute them vehemently? it took more than 5 years for him to make even the mild and half-hearted semi-corrections that he now does.

In one issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report, which he had published since 1985, he called former U.S. representative Barbara Jordan a "fraud" and a "half-educated victimologist." In another issue, he cited reports that 85 percent of all black men in Washington, D.C., are arrested at some point: "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." And under the headline "Terrorist Update," he wrote: "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

In spite of calls from Gary Bledsoe, the president of the Texas State Conference of the NAACP, and other civil rights leaders for an apology for such obvious racial typecasting, Paul stood his ground. He said only that his remarks about Barbara Jordan related to her stands on affirmative action and that his written comments about blacks were in the context of "current events and statistical reports of the time." He denied any racist intent. What made the statements in the publication even more puzzling was that, in four terms as a U. S. congressman and one presidential race, Paul had never uttered anything remotely like this.

When I ask him why, he pauses for a moment, then says, "I could never say this in the campaign, but those words weren't really written by me. It wasn't my language at all. Other people help me with my newsletter as I travel around. I think the one on Barbara Jordan was the saddest thing, because Barbara and I served together and actually she was a delightful lady." Paul says that item ended up there because "we wanted to do something on affirmative action, and it ended up in the newsletter and became personalized. I never personalize anything."

His reasons for keeping this a secret are harder to understand: "They were never my words, but I had some moral responsibility for them . . . I actually really wanted to try to explain that it doesn't come from me directly, but the campaign aides said that's too confusing. 'It appeared in your letter and your name was on that letter and therefore you have to live with it.'" It is a measure of his stubbornness, determination, and ultimately his contrarian nature that, until this surprising volte-face in our interview, he had never shared this secret. It seems, in retrospect, that it would have been far, far easier to have told the truth at the time.

posted November 21, 2007 10:02 PM              

The Scholarship of White Supremacy

by Errol Anthony Henderson

Stephen Gould (1981) outlined some of the more egregious examples of Eurocentric white supremacism thinly veiled as "science." He showed, among other things, how Eurocentric social science became structured and conditioned by a brand of biological determinist precepts that legitimated the oppressive white supremacist relationships evident in Eurocentric societies today.

Once Galileo challenged the intellectual basis of the Christian church with his compelling scientific arguments, European society looked more and more to science to explain their environment and fashion it in beneficial ways. European societies looked to science to explain, not only relationships between heavenly bodies, or vital organs, but also the social relationships between and among peoples. Much of this early work was conditioned by the very society that gave birth to it. Thus in the case of social science, social scientists were conditioned by the circumstances of their environments that provided the framework for their inquiry. Since social studies developed at a time when Europe began its great invasions into foreign lands, these disciplines were tempered with, at best, the conquest spirit which debased "foreign" cultures, or, at worst, they were imbued with a singular white supremacist orientation with no regard to other peoples' culture or humanity. Whole schools thought were thus ordered. The white racist tradition of European religionists was handed down to the "naturalists"-taking their cue from Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory, who once said that the gap between humans and apes would be made greater by the extinction of, among other things, black people (Gould 1981, 36). Other naturalists, such as Baffon, whom Gould hails as "the greatest naturalists of eighteenth century France" invoked white supremacist arguments in his "science" as well. John Bachmen sought to use these racist notions to rationalize the Holocaust of the Enslavement (Gould 1981, 40).

As the naturalists evolved into the more "rigorous" anthropologists, their white supremacist arguments that formed the bedrock of their "science" was expanded. Linnaeus debased Africans in his early taxonomy of 1758. Louis Agassiz, a Harvard professor, was a white supremacist "naturalist" who maintained that blacks should not receive social equality science their appropriate lot was submission to their superior white counterparts. In fact, he argued that education of the black races should be based on this latent inferiority, and thus they should be trained strictly in manual labor (Gould 1981, 47).

Brinton, Ferri, Gratiolet, Broca, Lombroso, Nott and Gliddon, Merton, Serres, Bean, Vogt, Bold, and Montessori all invoked and advocated, under the pale of "science," nothing less than white supremacy (Gould 1981; Chase 1977; Bernal 1987, 1991). They were joined in their advocacy of white supremacy by psychologists such as Hall, Eysenck, Spearman, Burt, and Jensen; by geologists such as Cuvier and Lyell; anthropologists such as Cope and Coon; philosophers like Hume, Jefferson, and Montesquieu; and historians such as Toynbee, Breasted, Jumod, Jeffreys, Wiedner, and Johnson (Gould 1981; Chas3 1977; Bernal 1987, 1991).

From this lists it is evident that these were not marginal individuals in their fields. Many of these white supremacists had either been credited with founding their respective fields, or in great part fashioning the structure of inquiry in their fields. For example, Toynbee is still widely regarded as the greatest of European historians. This white supremacist wrote in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary, that "The Black race has not helped to create any civilization" (Toynbee 1934444, 234). Cuvier was not only one of the three greatest naturalists of the nineteenth century and a founder of geology (Gould 1981), but as a scientist he made it clear that the African was "the most degraded of human races, whose form approaches that of the beast and whose intelligence is nowhere great enough to arrive at regular government" (cited in Gould 19811, 36). Hall was one of America's leading psychologist. In his influential work Adolescence (1904), he asserted that the Africans, Native Americans, and Chinese were members of "adolescent races" yet to complete their growth. How easily this notion, asserted at the height of imperialism, dovetails with the imperialist outcry heralded by Kipling: the White Man's Burden, which rationalized the colonization of "lesser breeds" as the responsibility of the civilized European.

Nott and Giddon (1984) published what was then the leading American text on human racial differences that favorably compared Africans with simians, a widely hailed white supremacist comparison echoed by, among others , Lyell who was also a founder of European geology (Gould 1981, 36). Galton, who coined the term "eugenics" in 1883 and was a pioneer of the white supremacist eugenicist movement, was also a pioneer in modern statistics. Gustave Le Bon was a founder of social psychology. In his 1898 The Psychology of Peoples (see Thomas and Sillen 1991, 24), he maintained that European types were superior to Africans, Chinese, Japanese, and the Semitic peoples, further maintaining that there was a mental abyss separating the races. Prominent psychiatrist Carl Jung was little different in regard to the common white supremacist conception of African intellectual inferiority. Following the white supremacist dogma of this time, he believed that "The different strata of the mind correspond to the history of the races." In this regard he asserted that the African "has probably a whole layer less than the white man" (see Thomas and Sillen 1991, 14). Living in such close proximity with the "Negro" in America, the white race could be pulled down without the positive defensive measures that were segregation and Jim Crow.

Morton's Crania Americana and his Crania Aegyptica were highly influential, just as Burt's twin's data would be later, Morton's "scholarship" was later shown to be racially biased and methodologically flawed. And we know now that Burt falsified his data. Both works have been stripped of any scientific pretense, notwithstanding that fact that their work has never been totally abandoned. Far from it along with Lombroso, Goddard, Terman, Yerkes, Jensen, and Montessori, the unfailingly white supremacist arguments of these propagandists has taken root in U.S. policymaking, domestic and foreign.

There were some outright idiots like the prominent southern physician S.A. Cartwright who identified the "disease," "Drapetomania," which was the name he assigned to the "sickness" of the enslaved African typified in the latter's "insane desire to run away." There were also those highly influential and respected scholars who in many cases established the groundwork and in many cases still provided the framework for Eurocentric scholarship.

Not only structuring scholarship, they structure government social policy in both Europe and America. Institutions were built around these white racist doctrines veiled as "science." One such institution was the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago from which many of the early American Egyptologists received their tutelage. James Henry Breasted, considered the dean of American Egyptologists, muted his scholarship to his white supremacism. Jackson (1988, 203) elaborated on the seasoning of Breasted's scholarship. Speaking of the Eurocentric Egyptologist, he says, "He published a high school textbook in 1916 called Ancient Times. It had two very fine chapters on Egypt and he plainly states in there that the ancient Egyptians were not white folks, but 'a brown-skinned race.' And then he needed money to establish the Oriental Institute and to do research in Egypt. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave him 1.5 million dollars, and then Breasted got out a new edition of his book and the Egyptians became 'members of the white race.' In other words, in order to get Rockefeller's money he had to switch over the Egyptians to 'the great white race'."

Of all the institutions which came to embrace, nurture, and build upon white supremacism, none has a more encompassing track record than Harvard. Harvard University was an important vehicle in the "scientizing" of white supremacism. Agassiz was professor of zoology at Harvard. William McDougall, Harvard professor of psychology, in his influential Introduction to Social Psychology, suggested that "negroes" through their "submission instinct" have an innate need to be pushed around by "white people."13 Such studies provided scientific justification for racial discrimination and segregation while underwriting white supremacy. They provided plausibility to "the assertion that Southern race policies were expressions of biological law and racial instinct rather than bigotry and prejudice" (Thomas and Sillen 1991,16). It follows then that lynch mobs were merely answering the "call of the blood" as was argued in their defense by Southern congressmen.14 Further, from his position of department chair, in 1921 McDougall called for a caste system based on biological capacity with restrictions on breeding among the lower castes.

Harvard anthropologist Ernest Hooton called for biological purges and compulsory sterilization of inferiors based, in great part, on racial (and racist) considerations. He made appeals of this sort during the rise of Nazism con-current with his term as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (1937). Hooton's assertions are still today an integral part of U.S. population planning schemes. Writing in "The Black Scholar" in 1981, Lynora Williams reported that "some 20% of married black women of child-bearing age are sterilized, many without knowing the facts of the procedure, some without even knowing the operation has taken place" (Williams 1981, 18). Allan Chase (1977, 17-23) in his The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism has also pointed out the white supremacism that has underlain much of U.S. population control and sterilization policy.

Harvard anthropologist Carlton Coon found "evidence" of black inferiority. His scholarship was so white supremacist that a 1976 KKK newspaper used it as a source document to support its white racist thesis in a pamphlet entitled, "Science Exposes the Equality Hoax" (Beckwith 1989, 246).

Edwin Katzenellenbogen was a Harvard Medical School faculty member who was subsequently convicted of war crimes at Buchenwald. It was the Harvard Educational Review which in 1969 published Jensen's white racist pseudo-scientific pretensions asserting that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites-through a flawed research design which did not attend, inter alia, to the complexities of racial typology, basic genetics, syllogistic logic, and the author's own admitted ignorance of what exactly intelligence is (Thomas and Sillen 1991, 39). He nonetheless insists that he can not only measure intelligence adequately, but he can conclude that non-whites are inferior vis--vis intelligence. With all these flaws it would seem that Jensen's efforts would be nothing more than a footnote in intellectual history. Nonetheless, it was taken up and defended by authors such as Eysenck (1971).

Richard Hernstein, Harvard professor of psychology, also attempted to make a scientific connection between genetics and wealth and status. If the stations we find ourselves in life are genetically determined and therefore unchangeable, then it follows that social policy's attempts at effective egalitarian change are useless and untenable ( see Beckwith (1989, 245). "The foundations for the proposals of both Hernstein and Jensen have been demolished and their data base has been shown to be fraudulent, and the genetic theories were either misunderstood or misinterpreted" (Beckwith 1989, 245). In 1985 Hernstein and J.Q. Wilson wrote a highly touted book that asserted the primacy of genetic contribution over social causes to the criminal inclination of individuals. They ignored so-called "white collar crime" and instead focused on crime among lower income groups. We are reminded by Trumpbour (1989, 229) that "among the city officials appointed by Mayor Koch the crime rate of 50% surpassed that of any identifiable grouping anywhere in the world." Harvard Medical School professors William Sweet, Vernon Mark, and Frank Ervin pursued similar white supremacist "pseudo-science" as a rationalization of the status quo and a "scientific" basis for the oppression and "guilticide" of white responsibility for the social evils rampant in America.

Harvard was also seminal in promulgating the "scientific management" school of industrial psychology which has as its purpose providing "a means of rationalizing social control, seeking to restore order through class-neutral, technocratic language designed go mask dominance" (Trumpbour 1989, 233). This school of thought, founded by Harvard professor Elton Mayo, was analogized and paralleled to Nazism by Robert Brady in 1937. Merkle (1980) also suggest a parallel. The parallel is most evident to the extent that both fascism and scientific management emphasize social control, duty, the inevitability of progress, the ennobling of labor, and the atomization of the individual resting his identity solely on the efficient exercise of his duty.

While the efficiency craze generated by Scientific Management was not the sole cause of this campaign of murder, its elevation of efficiency and rationality as virtues above common morality, its pseudo-scientific language and organizational techniques, and its early entanglement with ideas of racial and social efficiency certainly assisted in legitimizing a developing climate of opinion that allowed administration of the efficiently bureaucratized Aryan reproduction and minority liquidation campaigns to function with a sense of duty well done. (Merkle 1980, 234).

Scientific management allows the diffusion of responsibility to such an extent that individuals can participate in reprehensible acts without feeling personally responsible nor accountable for their actions or non-actions. Banden makes this clear: "social organizations go to great lengths to decide sophisticated mechanisms for obscuring responsibility for decisions that effect others adversely…. Through division of labor, division of decision-making, and collective action, people can be contributors to cruel practices and bloodshed without feeling personally responsible for self-contemptuous for their part in it" (Brandura, in Trumpbour 1089, 235).

Harvard faculty members E.O. Wilson, Irven DeVoi, and Robert Triven promoted their racist and sexist-based hierarchies in launching the "science" of sociobiology. These generic arguments are as patently false today as those of their forebears centuries ago. Yet still they persist even in light of excellent analyses that debunk them (Gould 1981; Chase 1977; Sahlins 11976; Reed 1978; Thomas and Sillen 1991).

The substance of white supremacist dogma posing as science has diffused throughout the social consciousness of Europe, America, and much of the world. Such theories have had influence on the domestic as well as the international front. "In addition to generating theories with significant social import, Harvard faculty members have had more direct influence on policy. Kissinger's power involvement in the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam are only two examples of such contributions. Daniel Moynihan brought his academic theories to Washington under the Nixon Administration, helping to support the policy of "benign neglect" toward blacks (Trumpbour 1089, 246). Edward Banfield, Harvard urbanologist and advisor on urban affairs to President Nixon, found fertile ground within that administration for his white supremacist analyses. Banfield reinforces the benign neglect policy in stating that "The lower class individual lives in the slum and sees little or no reason to complain. He does not care how dirty and dilapidated his housing is either inside or out, nor does he mind the inadequacy of such public facilities as schools, parks, libraries: indeed, where such things exist, he destroys them by acts of vandalism if he can. Features that make the slum repellent to others actually please him. He finds it satisfying in several ways" (cited in Chase 1977).

Senator Robert Byrd, the former president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate and reputed Ku Klux Klan organizer, also pointed out that "We can take the people out of the slums but we can't take the slums out of the people" (cited in Chase 1977). This sociobiological racism appears to not only carry the day in the klavern, but also in the U.S. Congress. The young presidential speech writer for Nixon and 1992 presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, also evoked racist sociobiological arguments in an early article concerned with the "genetics of intelligence" (cited in Chase 1977).

In sum, considering the history of white supremacism in the United States, it should hardly by surprising that such assertions find a kind ear among policy-makers and officials. This is not simply due to the psychological reductionist phenomena outlined by, among others, Farr and Anderson (1983, 54) who cite that there is "a pervasive tendency for actors to attribute the course of their own behavior to aspects of the situation in which they act, while observers explain the same action of others in terms of the stable, dispositional characteristics of the actor." It is also the result of the receptivity of the supremacist argument by the dominant white society for which it serves, as pointed out above, a basic sociological function.

The social policy emanating from white supremacist Eurocentric scholarship has contributed to the destruction of African peoples at home and abroad. This can be traced back, in terms of U.S. foreign policy, to the 1940 census, which for the first time attempted to enumerate mentally diseased and retarded persons. The census concluded that African-Americans outside of the enslaved South fared worse, mentally, than those enslaved in the South.15 These false claims became "proof" of the need for the enslavement of Africans in America. Faced with the "burdens of freedom," it was argued by prominent white supremacists such as John Calhoun, Africans became lunatics. Therefore, enslavement saved the African from mental death. This was "proven" from the "evidence" of the 1840 census! Later, Secretary of State Calhoun cited the 1840 census figures to justify the annexation of Texas and the extension of enslavement (see Thomas and Sillen 1991, 17).

During this century, the American version of white supremacism provided the basis for, inter alia, the Tuskegee "experiments" where white "scientists," physicians, like their Nazi brothers and sisters, either injected syphilis into healthy black men or failed to treat syphilitic blacks, or both. Even after the discovery of penicillin, these doctors refused to treat over 400 black patients or their families while also telling them that they didn't have syphilis. They were told that they had "bad blood." They continued to have sexual relations and the disease spread throughout the community. Children were born syphilitic. Others were stillborn. "Participants" died miserable slow deaths. These "experiments" lasted from 1932 to 1972-forty years. This program was conducted under the auspices and authority of the U.S. Public Health Service, Tuskegee "experiments" were a direct precursor to the Nazi war crimes committed under Hitler, who would come to power the year following the implementation of the Tuskegee "program." No one, however, went to jail for these murders.

As genocidal as the Tuskegee "experiments" were, the true scope, extent, and magnitude of Eurocentric "science" in pursuit of white supremacist aims is nowhere better manifest than in its pursuit, development, and deployment of pathogenic chemical, bacteriological, and viral agents. In so doing it has not only threatened humankind but the planet itself. The true extent of this ecological damage is yet to be assessed. Afrocentrists don't maintain that genocide and ecological destruction is the exclusive domain of the European, surely the list includes many other peoples including Africans. Afrocentrists insist that Europeans, more than any other group , have been responsible for the greatest amount of destruction and "scientific" dehumanization of the world's peoples. However, there are multiple approaches in Eurocentrism: universalist, supremacist, and parochial. For world politics, we must concern ourselves with which of these approaches predominates and informs our paradigms. If paradigms of world politics are conditioned by the leaching effect of the supremacist Eurocentrist worldview, then our global analyses that drew from this paradigm must be reevaluated and reconstructed. In the next Chapter we will examine the major paradigms of world politics and assess the leaching effect. For now, we should appreciate better the position of the Afrocentrists and the white supremacism that they assail. In the next section we briefly outline the basis of Afrocentric discourse before taking it up in greater detail in a later chapter.

Excerpted from the book Afrocentrism and World Politics: Towards a New Paradigm

posted November 22, 2007 10:58 AM            

I can't tell what is going on...if you believe in White Supremacist or you are saying that PAUL does and no one sees it and you are against it.

because this being a site dedicated to Linda Goodman, I know she was totally for Civil Rights and not one group who thinks they are truly the majority?

Can you tell me Zanya if you are a White Supremacist or you are against them and Ron Paul? Becuase I have always been one to think if you believe it...speak it out loud and not talk about others that we assume are those things.

posted November 23, 2007 12:12 PM              

if you will take a look at the final article i posted in this thread regarding the fallacy of white supremacist pseudo-science, i think you'll understand better my intentions here.

please analyze the article and then re-consider whether someone who was supporting these ideas would promote an article such as this.

what this tells me about the prevalence and saturation of these ideas in our culture and everywhere, even here, speaks volumes. that you even have to ask these questions of me. it is my thought that the content at the Stormfront site would be enough to turn anyone's stomach.

posted November 23, 2007 02:55 PM            

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in the end, it isn't the intention at all, simply the reception that matters.

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A difficult road to navigate , yes ?

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