Where the Democrats' President Woodrow Wilson introduced racial segregation into those government agencies in Washington where it did not exist at the time, Republican President Calvin Coolidge's wife invited the wives of black Congressmen to the White House.
Back in those days, blacks voted for Republicans as automatically as they vote for Democrats today. Southern segregationists who railed against blacks were often also Progressives who railed against Wall Street. Progressive intellectuals who crusaded against the admission of immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, branding them as genetically inferior, included many prominent academic scholars - such as heads of such scholarly organizations as the American Economic Association and the American Sociological Association. In academia, there were 376 courses devoted to eugenics in 1920. The eugenics movement spawned Planned Parenthood, among other groups. Luisterboek: 26 september 2005 Bekijk meerProgressives spearheaded the eugenics movement, dedicated to reducing the reproduction of supposedly "inferior" individuals and races. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on the trendy intellectuals of our times as well as such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted. The reasons for the venomous hatred of Jews, and other groups like them in countries around the world, are also explored, as are misconceptions of Nazi Germany.
He presents eye-opening insights into the development of the ghetto culture-a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves “friends” of blacks-which is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity, and he reexamines the tragic institution of slavery. Through a series of essays, Sowell presents an in-depth look at key beliefs behind many mistaken and dangerous actions, policies, and trends. This explosive new book challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans and Nazis, slavery, and education. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell.
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