PrintSeptember 18, 2011
Social Darwinism and Barack Obama
Consider Darwin's attitude about the black race. Darwin dreamed of a future for mankind when the black races of man will become extinct, thus enhancing the chances for the evolutionary advancement of the more "civilized" races of man.
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla."
Descent of Man, Charles Darwin, Chapter 7: "On the Races of Man: Sub-species"
Charles Darwin is relevant because his racist theories of white...(Read Full Article)
