The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-07-18
MRS. SCHUYLER
S A Y S
A German on Race

| clared himself German of the
Old Regime, and said that he haC
no sympathy with Hitlerism, thai
it was pure nonsense to speak o.
the "Germanic" race for Germany
was one of the most mixed stocks
in Europe. Prof. Boas, we'll known
for many standard books on An
thoroughly, went os to say that he
intended to try to clean up some
of of the nonsense being spread
about race these days. 1t is a ques
ton particularly important fol-
America, he said. The people here
as in Germany, seemed to be going
crazy on the subject of race.
Uneducated people, and those
wishing to befuddle the mob for
political reasons, confuse indivi-
dual heredity, a scientific reality,
with racial heredity which has no
scientific validity. Races are all in
termixed, their qualities overlap
and their is no single item dis
tinctive to one group not found in
some other group or groups.
Take slant eyes, an extreme
characteristic that many think
common only to Mongolians, but
which is to be found in the Bush
man-Hottentots of South Africa.
Take black skin color which is
supposed to be African, but the
Hindu who is said to be of "Aryan"
stock, is also in many millions of
cases, black. And don't forget the
Philippians, who before they were
defeated, were called white!
Crinkley hair supposedly an Afri-
can characteristic is also Ia be
foun is the many Films, Germans,
Irish,fi Swedish Jews, Italians,
Spanish and Greeks. Maybe it got
there by intermiXture in the dim
long ago but however it was, it's
there now. Take those feature
which the untraveled and untread
call distinctly negroid, such as full
mouths and wide nostrils, they are
plentifully sprinkled through every
so-called race" To be sure you
have more Africans with crinkley
hair than Firms but so long as you
find any Firms with it, it ceases to
be a distinctly African character
istic. Let me stop and say right
here that l have never understood
why people imagine straight hair
to be superior to the crinkley va
riety. The Ancient Greeks thought
so highly Of this type of cranial
adornment that it became the
fashion to have ones hair pepper
corned' if it was not already cur
led by nature.
After finding the races so inter
mixed that physical distinctions
were impossible, the white-blood
fanatics turned hopefully to men
tai tests for a basis of superiority
But alas, the Negroes Of New York
were found so much brighter than
the noble nordics Of Mississippi
that this apple cart was upset, too.
Relief and Marriage i'm Missouri
The Colt County Court of Mis-
souri, ruled recently that relief
clients We're ineligible for mar
riage. Perhaps they didn't realize
what q momontous precedent they
were setting. But the effects of
such a decision are terrific. III such
O. rule should become widespread
what would &c mean?
i. would mean that as I'm the
Roman Empire, marriage would
become fine privilege of the veal
tdv Children of the unemployed
would DE y3ked with bastardy as
well as poverty. It would mean %
greater division than ever between
the IucEy and uulucly. III would
mean the decline of democracy and
ha eventual ruin of America The
character and reputation OF ma
U. is u.. e. br the handful of
rich t .he top bu. by tine masses.
India has the richest ruling caste
in .Ha world bul as a nation she
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