Reparations, Good Schools, Darwin and Evolution

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"...every group that wishes to see conflicting interests resolved reasonably, or is wise about the conditions under which it enjoys its own freedom, must be profoundly concerned with the state of freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of inquiry and teaching, freedom of press and other forms of communication, freedom of cultural opportunity and development. For in large measure intelligent moral choice depends upon them."
--Sidney Hook (1902-1988), disciple of John Dewey, and champion of pragmatism and democracy

Darwin's 'The Descent of Man'-- The best case yet for reparations

For about a decade the reparations movement has picked up momentum. The reasons behind it are in the millions. Each American black man, woman or child, who remains economically or socially harmed by the long, inhumane practice of American slavery and the century-plus of discrimination that followed it, represents one of the reasons for reparations. If you are not totally familiar with the racist nature of Darwin's "The Descent of Man," read the review of that work on this site.

RANDALL ROBINSON, President of the Transafrica Forum, summarizes the problem like this:

"The enslavement of blacks in America lasted 246 years. It was followed by a century of legal racial segregation and discrimination. The two periods, taken together, constitute the longest running crime against humanity in the world over the last 500 years. Fifteen to twenty-five million Africans were killed in the Middle Passage alone.

"African social and economic institutions were destroyed. Languages, religions, customs were extinguished. Whole cultures were lost. All memory of Africa's greatness in antiquity, the source civilizations of Western civilization, were stripped from the consciousness of slavery's direct and derivative contemporary victims.

"As a result of the ravages of slavery and the racial strictures that followed it, blacks in America were consigned to this Nation's economic bottom. A yawning gap was opened. It has been a static gap since the Emancipation Proclamation. This condition can no longer be tolerated. We're here today to discuss this gap and the lasting social penalties of slavery and how they might be addressed once and for all."

While the slavery issue does, on its own merits, carry a lot of weight in the argument for reparations, anti-reparation proponents are quick to counter it with the fact that legal slavery ended in America almost 150 years ago. Because there are no American slave owners yet alive, there ought be no financial remedy available to the descendants of slaves, from the descendants of slave owners. American jurisprudence tends to give weight to that argument.

Regarding the years that followed the Emancipation Proclamation, Mr. Robinson has this to say:

"[After the Emancipation Proclamation, there was a } ...century of government-embraced racial discrimination that followed it, to the black men in prison, who in a fairer society might have realized their fullest potential, to the impoverished black mothers, too often alone and hopeless beneath their burdens, to black children, who all too frequently enter school with not even a chance of long-term success, these are the contemporary victims of America's Holocaust."

I would certainly agree with Mr. Robinson as to the on-going reality of racial discrimination against black Americans during the past 150 years. During the years that this discourse developed, there have been some very strong arguments presented to demonstrate the "government-embraced" aspect to which Mr. Robinson alludes.

I think that there is yet another very strong argument supporting direct government involvement in the promotion of racial discrimination. The branch of government responsible for this on-going crime against black Americans is the Department of Education, for it is under its auspices that the nation's public schools receive federal direction. ...And just what is the nature of this on-going racist indoctrination propagated in the public schools? It is the teaching of out-dated and blatantly racist Darwinism.

Virtually all scholars, even the most loyal among the followers of Darwin, admit that the man was a racist. Therefore, they commonly explain this away with these words: "Sure, Darwin was a racist. But everyone was a racist during the middle and end of the nineteenth century. He was just a product of his times. Besides, Darwin was a staunch abolitionist; and by such, any racist tendencies he might of have otherwise have exhibited are mitigated." There are no other arguments made for Darwin's racism. It is just accepted.

I believe that these arguments do not hold water. First of all, if a racist (such as Darwin) is writing about origins, evolution, and races, I have a real problem believing that this racist man is going to be objective and scholarly. ... And Darwin certainly does not disappoint my skepticism. This is what he writes in the second part of his massive two-part work on origins and evolution:

"At some future period (Darwin writes), 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 ... 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 the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 2nd ed (New York: A. L. Burt Co., I 874), p. 178).

Now, if Darwin were writing a cookbook, teaching me, and our nation's children, what he believes to be the best way to make an apple pie, I would have no trouble with it--his being a racist would not much alter my opinion of his program for combining apples, sugar, nutmeg, water, cinnamon, flour and heat. When eating a pie from his directions, I might consider the source of the recipe, but I doubt that it would much change my appreciation for the taste of the product.

However, Darwin is not about apple pies. Darwin is about the way American youth are trained to apprehend their fellow man. In this case, the racist background of an educator does matter.

The second argument used by Darwin apologists to explain away his racism is based upon Darwin's efforts in support of abolition. They hold that no racist could be an abolitionist; therefore, Darwin was not a "real" racist.

The mistake Darwin supporters make here is that they confuse "anti-abolitionism" with "racism." They are two very different concepts. One can be an abolitionist and a racist. ... And that is exactly what Darwin was.

No reasonable man refutes that Darwin was against slavery. That is a given. There is clear evidence of this. Darwin was an abolitionist. He was, however, also a raging racist. That also, is a given. It is clear that Darwin did not view the Aborigines or black peoples as fully human, and he even predicted their eventual extinction. To Darwin, such beings ranked between Caucasians and "anthropomorphous apes;" in other words, they were not fully human in the finest sense of the term, at least not as fully human as Caucasians [read Western Europeans].

The mistake Darwin's apologists make here is they argue that simply because Darwin did not wish to enslave groups of human-like beings, that he was not a racist. No such conclusion can be drawn. While Darwin might never have owned a slave; and while, if given the power, he most likely would have freed all slaves; he still was a raging racist.

This is the proper way to view the thinking of Darwin: Darwin viewed himself as a "beneficent zoo keeper," not a plantation owner.

And that is where the elite American educational establishment is today. Whether the members of that establishment know it or not, they are racists of the same ilk as Darwin. It is the members of this group, under the behest of the federal government, who are responsible for the ongoing racial problems that today exist throughout America and the whole of western civilization.

They get up on their soap boxes and preach tolerance, while at the same time striving to suppress black peoples through their flat-earth Darwinian evolution. They may not wish to own slaves, but they sure do not mind playing the part of beneficent zoo keepers.

I have no patience with such blatant disregard for honesty. How can we continue to support the educational establishment that has been built around Darwin's racist theory of evolution?

If a person takes the time to think this thing through, and if he still continues to tolerate this travesty, then there are only two things that can be going on in his head: 1--that person must actually believe black peoples and Aborigines inherently represent something less than do white people; or, 2--that person is not engaging his brain to reality.

I believe that at some future period, not very distant as measured by months and years, African-Americans will almost certainly rise up against the public school system in this country, for it clearly propagates pure racist teachings, teachings which are totally at odds with those held by the real scientific community. When this happens, when African-Americans fully exercise their power against the system that for the past 70 years has taught white (and black) children that it was white destiny to be the beneficent zoo keepers overseeing and controlling every aspect of the existence of the lesser beings known as African-Americans; then we will find out what reparations are really all about. There will be hell (and more) to pay when it is finally demonstrated to all that while white Americans may no longer run plantations, they still feel it their god-given right to maintain their " Darwinian zoos."

I declare that there ought not ever to have been zoos for people. I declare that Darwin was wrong -- that Caucasians are not superior to the black peoples of the world. I declare that from the days of John Dewey to the present time, American education is patently racist. ...And any one who espouses Darwin's theory of evolution, is patently racist, defacto racist (if he is naive), dishonest, or stupid--take your pick. I do not care how well the zoo keeper treats those under his charge, I do not believe that any people should be regarded or treated like second-class human beings.

I declare that while it was a good thing to end slavery, the time has now come to close out the beneficent zoo-keeper era as well. Now is the time to put an end to Darwin's racism in America. Now is the time to boot the racist Darweenies out of our educational system -- for good. It is time for a "seed" change in education in America. We need to encourage a new crop of teachers, -- new teachers, ones who are not corrupted with old thinking. When this happens it will produce a sea change. The longer this archaic, idiotic racist notion of Darwin is propagated, the longer it will be before racial healing can take place.

I have no doubt in my mind that over the course of the next 25 years this nation will pay through the nose for 70 years of this beneficent zoo-keeper mentality. There is already a strong movement in the African-American community seeking reparations, and rightly so. So far the provocateurs of this endeavor have rooted their rhetoric in the slavery issue. I think that this beneficent zoo-keeper teaching of Darwin, that rules in our public schools to this very hours, provides a much stronger case in support of that effort. Because it is contemporary, it represents a far better argument than the 150-year-old slavery issue. "Zoo-keeper racism" is going on right now in every school in this nation. It must be stopped, and the reparations movement might be the only way to accomplish it.

Would you like to see related letters and my comments?

--Mike Carrier (MA, NYU--Graduate School of Arts and Science)

This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations.

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This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations. This page features a frank discussion of the issue of reparations for African Americans, and declares that the teaching of Darwin's racist 'The Decent of Man' as the base case yet for reparations.

We are convinced that the teachings of Darwin, particularly Darwin's teachings on evolution, and Darwin's theories on origins, ought not be taught as fact. Darwin and Darwin's theories are not generally accepted by contemporary physicists and cosmologists, and, therefore, Darwin and Darwin's theories ought not be accepted whole-cloth by our schools of education, and ought not be presented as fact in public schools.

Because Richard Dawkins has set himself up as the number one defender of Darwin and Darwin's theory of evolution, we will go to some length explaining Dawkins' Darwin defenses, and we will do our best to explode Dawkins' Darwin defenses.

We seek to show from Darwin's own hand that Darwin, and Darwin's theory of evolution, are racist at the core. Darwin was a racist, Darwin's theory of evolution is racist, and Darwin's theory of origins is racist.

We further seek to show that Darwin's theory of evolution is not scientific. We show that racism, more than science, was behind Darwin and Darwin's theory of evolution, and Darwin's theory of origins.

Some of the terms commonly used on this site are: Darwin, Dawkins, schools, public schools, education, gun control, teachers, John Dewey, Littleton, racist, racism , school choice, African American, Sidney Hook, evolution, and Mike Carrier.

Bottom line--good schools require work. Good schools do not just happen. We need good schools, if we are to have a good nation.

This site features a frank presentation of issues facing parents, taxpayers and schools in reforming schools in the twenty-first century. Good Schools promotes good schools, and explains what is necessary to achieve good schools. We are convinced that good schools can be obtained only with sound curriculum, which does not include the teaching of Darwin's theory of origin, or Darwin's theory of evolution. We believe that local school boards need to be empowered, and the influence of teachers' unions ought to be limited to labor-related issues. Teachers' unions should have no say in curriculum.

Bottom line--good schools require work. Good schools do not just happen. We need good schools, if we are to have a good nation.