| Please watch these two bellow videos: 1. "Charles Darwin did not invent racism and slavery" www.youtube.com 2. Arab / Muslim Literature on "black people" and "the colonial imaginary" www.youtube.com Everything in this video comes from "The anthropological treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach": books.google.com "" God's image he too," as Fuller says, " although made out of ebony." This has been doubted sometimes, and, on the contrary, it has been asserted that the negroes are specifically different in their bodily structure from other men, and must also be placed considerably in the rear, from the condition of their obtuse mental capacities. Personal observation, combined with the accounts of trustworthy and unprejudiced witnesses, has, however, long since convinced me of the want of foundation in both these assertions. But I need not repeat everything which I have elsewhere publicly expressed in opposition to those views; though there are one or two points I cannot leave quite untouched'. I am acquainted with no single distinctive bodily character which is at once peculiar to the negro, and which cannot be found to exist in many other and distant nations; none which is in like way common to the negro, and in which they do not again come into contact with other nations through imperceptible passages, just as every other variety of man runs into the neighbouring populations... Now this was exactly the case with the negress of Yverdun, and with several other negresses ... |
