Tag: The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States

Race Fact #21: Humanity’s origin is not animals

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Humans, specifically those of African descent, do not derive from apes. It’s a tradition of race not a scientific fact. “In 1699, the web of legend and unverified fact was disentangled by Edward Tyson, whose comparative study of a young ‘orang- outang’ was a masterwork of critical scientific investigation.  Throughout his dissection of the chimpanzee, […]

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Race Fact #2

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The social colors of race, here being black/ white/ red/ yellow/ brown/ beige people, are a modern invention. “The terms Indian and Negro were both borrowed from the Hispanic languages, the one originally deriving from (mistaken) geographical locality and the other from human complexion. … After about 1680 … a new tern of self- identification […]

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