It is clear from Whitney's foreword that his way of thinking about, discussing and classifying race is typical of traditional white American racial folklore. When one examines the complexities of the history of the race concept, one realizes that race claims have always been political. It is disingenuous for Whitney to claim some kind of disinterested scientific objectivity. He deserves no sympathy then, when he whines that he is being hounded like a geneticist under Stalin. No one is repressing him.
People are simply angry when they see politics and prejudice dressed up as science and certainty.
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