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Assimilation and integration constitute a two-way street. Those who want to join America must be received and welcomed by those who already think they own America. Racism, as I have noted, has been the great national tragedy. In recent times white America has at last begun to confront the racism so deeply and shamefully inbred in our history. But the tri- umph over racism is incomplete.
— Apr 24, 2025 02:22PM
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Other Baseline Essays argue in a similar vein that Africa was the birthplace of science, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and art, and that Europe stole its civ- ilization from Africa and then engaged in "malicious misrepresentation of African society and people ... to support the enormous profitability of slavery."
— Apr 25, 2025 02:16AM
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"Black superiority in the areas of mental development, neurological functioning, and psychomotor development," opines Amos Wilson, "[are] ... all related to the possession of a high level of melanin."
— Apr 25, 2025 02:09AM
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Whites must strive for supremacy, according to the black psychiatrist Frances Cress, to make up for their racial inferiority, caused by their "genetic inability to produce the skin pigments of melanin which are responsible for all skin coloration."
— Apr 25, 2025 02:09AM
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According to Professor Asa Hilliard, a black psychologist at Georgia State University, black students have cultural characteristics that whites lack: "high levels of energy, impulsive interrupting, and loud talking."
— Apr 25, 2025 02:05AM
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Charles Willie of Harvard finds several distinct "intelligences" of which the "communication and calculation" valued by whites constitute only two. Other kinds of "intelligence" are singing and dancing, in both of which blacks excel.
— Apr 25, 2025 02:04AM
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"There are scientific studies that show, at early ages, the difference between Caucasian infants and African infants," says Clare Jacobs, a teacher in Washington, D.C. "Our African children are very expressive. Every thought we have has an emotional dimension to it, and Western education has historically subordinated the feelings."
— Apr 25, 2025 02:04AM
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Some black educators even assert ultimate biological and mental differences, arguing that black students do not learn the way white students do and that the black mind works in a genetically distinctive way Black children are said, in the jargon of the educationist, to "process information differently."
— Apr 25, 2025 02:02AM
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"The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed," Franklin D. Roosevelt said in 1943, "is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race and ancestry. A good American is one who is loyal to this country and to our creed of liberty and democracy."
— Apr 25, 2025 01:39AM
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The Melting-Pot played before rapt audiences across the country. Jane Addams of HullHouse in Chicago observed that Zangwill had performed "a great service to America by reminding us of the high hopes of the founders of the Republic."
— Apr 24, 2025 02:38PM
