The Dixiecrat governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, said this in 1962, back when I was an innocent 5 year old who thought all people were good and kind.
There is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration. We will not drink from the cup of genocide.
I first learned about this yesterday, in this video about segregation in sports. It would be so nice to roll back in time to my blissful ignorance as a child.
I had no idea we white people were so frail. Of course, he was laboring under the fallacious belief that miscegenation was evil and that the one-drop rule was valid. There’s a curious racist game they play, where the children of a white person and a black person are 100% black, rather than 50% white, and under those counterfactual rules, white people will rapidly go extinct if mixed race marriages are permitted. It’s a weird mindset that calls having children “genocide”.
But this was in 1962! Surely we have grown past this nonsense here in the 21st century. No, we haven’t. This belief is the major guiding principle of the Republican party. Nowadays they tend to avoid the blatant stuff; instead, they whisper about the “great replacement theory”, which is built on the same fundamental ignorance about biology and meiosis and inherited traits, and is therefore fallacious and doesn’t deserve the dignity of being called a “theory”.
Or they draft some brain-washed Christian hick to use her fundie baby voice to whitewash their hatred of immigrants with Jesus and patriotism. It’s all the same thing. America hasn’t changed its core since the civil rights movement made a valiant effort to call these people to account — this is still a deeply racist country.
The infection has been festering for decades, and is ready to erupt again under the banner of Donald Trump. In the name of decency and basic human dignity, we have to sweep every vestige of the Republican party out of power.
Very well said, PZ. Nothing ever really changes and the resurgence of racism that we’ve seen under Trump is nothing new. My fear is that it is being normalized — not only by Republicans but by the media which treats Trump and MAGAts as if they are just political players.
As a Black woman, there’s nothing fascinating about Trump and his sycophants. They’re dangerous and toxic and they need to be soundly defeated.
There was a time when i, naively and ignorantly, thought we’d (Aussies & Americans and the “Western World” and people generally) goten alot better and didn;t have mahjor issues with racism anymore. That only a tiny fringe of extremists still even remotely thought that way. I was so wrong.
We were having a conversation over at Mano’s blog about the GOP, and to what extent they’ve changed over the years. I guess at their core they really haven’t. Disappointing that they’ve managed to recruit so many people from demographic groups they hate. If you can make those people hate somebody else you hate, you can win them over (e.g., Log Cabin republicans).
Racist christian white people erupted in massive violence that defined the 20th century and cost hundreds of millions of lives. There is really something wrong with them.
@ 2 StevoR
Mate, I appreciate you’ve changed, and that’s all we can ever ask.
But, “people in glass houses…”. Just sayin’.
Integration happened in the 20th century.
It is far from perfect but things are a whole lot better for everyone than they were when segregation was legal and widespread.
And white people including myself are still here.
I’m a lot more afraid of toxic haters like the GOP than nonwhites.
AFAIK, there is also no case where the Caucasian race has disappeared due to social integration.
I have no idea what he is referring to here.
There are many cases where the Caucasian race has spread out due to genocides or near genocides.
Both North and South America were once occupied by Asiatics known today as Native Americans or Indians.
Australia was once occupied by Aboriginal people who originally came from Asia.
New Zealand was once all Polynesian.
Well, I clicked on the “one-drop rule” and the chain of wikipedia links took me to the uncomfortable fact that I did not know:
Yeah, Thomas Jefferson was having sex with his 14 years old slave. Jesus fucking chris.
lotharloo @8: Yeah, I remember when that accusation was first made. It was a big controversy, a lot of people were upset at the idea that anyone would believe Jefferson was anything less than perfect in every way.
The descent from Jefferson and Hemings has been verified by DNA analysis, I believe. Also, in his will, Jefferson freed some of the children he sired on Hemings, but didn’t free her. An anti-slavery Polish nobleman gave Jefferson a large sum of money so he could buy and free slaves, which he used instead on his debts. Jefferson was a hypocritical piece of shit, like the other founding fathers. The only one who was not completely awful was Franklin, who was more of a buttheaded clownish bon vivant than a scheming political douchebag.
@ raven
I haven’t seen any Circassians, Georgians or Chechens violently colonize other continents in the past few millenia. Please don’t use obsolete racist terminology.
Yeah, there’s no such thing as a “caucasian race”. Unfortunately, the police are the primary promoters of that awful ahistorical unscientific bilge.
Well, more children => population increase => increased resource usage => increased environmental degradation => faster ecosystem collapse => eventual extinction of humanity. So, kinda…
@10. Marcus Ranum :“The descent from Jefferson and Hemings has been verified by DNA analysis,”
Yes. Pretty much :
Source : https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/jefferson-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-a-brief-account/monticello-affirms-thomas-jefferson-fathered-children-with-sally-hemings/
From what I gather.
Although, apparently, there’s still some argument :
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%E2%80%93Hemings_controversy
But yeah..
Source : https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/may99/dnatest110198.htm
@Marcus Ranum:
You’re misremembering and confabulating here. Kosciuszko didn’t give Jefferson any cash money, but named Jefferson the executor of his will, where his inheritance of American properties would be used to free slaves.
Jefferson didn’t take any money and misuse it; he refused outright to perform as executor.
However, there were additional problems with Kosciuszko’s bequest: his heart may have been set on freeing some slaves at the time he wrote that will — but he also had other estates and wrote subsequent wills, which gave specific sums and/or estates to others. The conflicting bequests resulted in the cases coming before the U.S. Supreme Court multiple times.
The Supreme Court ultimately decided that the American will which freed slaves was superseded by the later will(s), and that “Kosciuszko had died intestate as to the American fund” and “the American estate should be distributed to his relatives who may be entitled to inherit from him, according to the law of his domicile at the time of his death”.
Source:
A Testamentary Tragedy: Jefferson and the Wills of General Kosciuszko
Author(s): Louis Ottenberg
Source: American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1 (JANUARY 1958), pp. 22-26
Published by: American Bar Association
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25720230
Benjamin Franklin was central to a land speculation scheme aimed at “buying land” (occupied of course by Indians) from the British Crown, constituting it as a new colony (“Vandalia”) then, once the inhabitants had been killed or driven out, selling it in small parcels on credit to white settlers (see Alan Taylor, American Revolutions, pp.78 in my norton paperback edition).
Eh, no hero’s but for the best of the lot I’m throwing my vote in for Thomas Paine as the best of the bunch.