Antenor Firmin, The Equality of the
Human Races, pp.296, “Egypt and Civilization” (University
of Illinois Press, Champlain: 1885, 2002).
“We
have heard it all. I shall not respond to the inept argument
according to which Blacks who have shown superior abilities did so
only under the influence of Whites whose frequentation is presumably
indispensable to their mental development. This is no more than a
paralogical argument, whereby a common fact is turned into a special
rule. The truth is that backwards people need to come into contact
with more advanced people in order to progress. But there is no
reason to imagine this has anything to do with ethnicity. Even if the
terms were reversed, that is, even if the backward people were
Caucasian and the advanced were Ethiopian, the general truth would
not change. The ancient Greeks learned science from Egyptian sources,
but no one has ever considered them innately inferior to the Theban
priests who taught them. So when Europeans deduce such strange rules
from a number of facts, they look at things only from today's
perspective. But does not elementary logic dictate that, before we
make any sort of generalization, we must review every aspect of a
phenomenon which occurred at various times and in various places?”
Since this excerpt was posted here, I have had occasion to encounter "THE PATHOLOGY OF RACIAL PREJUDICE" by preeminent sociologist, Dr. E. Franklin Frazier that establishes that entrenched racism is indeed "pathological," as I had earlier adumbrated. Here's the link: http://www.unz.org/Pub/Forum-1927jun-00856
Since this excerpt was posted here, I have had occasion to encounter "THE PATHOLOGY OF RACIAL PREJUDICE" by preeminent sociologist, Dr. E. Franklin Frazier that establishes that entrenched racism is indeed "pathological," as I had earlier adumbrated. Here's the link: http://www.unz.org/Pub/Forum-1927jun-00856
