Arizona sun., 1950-02-24
BROTHERHOOD
By FRANKLY C. MILLER


By FRANKLY C. MILLER
This week National Brotherhood Week, and all too
lew OF us TO sn% 10 e
faces which has made such observance
desirable in this free" country in which we live
Contrary popular belief, racial prejudice know
it fairly modern in origin. Many regard people who
different with certain degree of contempt and
people have frequently been regarded inferior be-
of their religion In America there various ma
tiona" and sectional groups who feel strong pride in
their particular people, However until nearly the elgh
teenh century, Negroes regarded inferior not be-
cause they black but chiefly because they
Slave traders made no attempt to brand the Negro
racialy Inferior but frequently admitted that their vic
Tins obviously their mental equals and superior
to at home Negroes inferior when they, like
members of other kept in servtude but
because of alone Here the beginning of racial
prejudice know it today.
When the aboitionsts claimed that Negro slaves
good human beings this threatened the future of the sav
cry business Those who had hundreds of thousands of
dollars tied up in the industry felt necessary
show that Negroes bioogcay inferior in order to
continue their nefarou traffic Accordingly many books
and tracts appeared to substantate these claims
An translation of Luthers commentary on the
Book of Genesis by of Luthers early disciples named
of Genesis Noah cursed of CHAINS and bade him
e o M M Iuer wrote that
to Cham in the foules coors, which the literal minded
Hennemann translated to mean darkest or bac6est !.
is therefore responsible for the "back race
Anthropoogsts showed the fallacy of these argu
ineau Frenchman, translated by pro-slavery
agandst and became the progentor not only of American
discriminatory immigration legislation but of the erroneous
racial theories entertained in Hters Mein Kempf we'll
This book widely distributed in northern Europe,
ticularly in Germany
The January, 1888, issue of America stated The Re
public which passes the champion of democratic deas
for the paradise of equality the United States it has
grown age and experience has wholly rallied to the doc
trnes of Gobineau The immigration laws, drawn and
voted by the Congress of the United States Goblin
ism fortified by certain degree of electoral ferocy
Thus the people who in the Declaration of ndepend
of 1776 solemny proclaimed the bankruptcy OF the
heredty principle the first to put into practice sys-
tenn of legislation founded upon the principles of heredy
and to apply their social life the scest rules for the
control of heredity It is really pity that M de Gobineau
did not live to enjoy the fruits of his triumph.
Most modern authorities believe that the word "race
should be only when referring to the three four
great types of mankind the white Caucasod the black
Negrod the yellow Mongolod and finally the Aus
traloids.
Color of skin not exact criterion OF race because
within each there shades OF skin color MOsC
of the sback" natives of India whom American immigra
ton authorities classify Negrod regarded by an
thropologsts as Caucasod Skin color determined by the
amount of carotene and meann in ones sn and all of
with the exception OF abnos nave some OF Dotn OF neSe
chemicals in our skin.
There is no difference in the color temperature pulse
or other qualities of the blood that flows beneath the skin
of the various races although through continued mtermar
rage isolated groups of race may nave hlgner
percentage of type blood than another The four chief
types of blood co. A. B. and ABB found in all races.
Practically all modern anthropoogsts agree that every
human being on earth today descended from the or
gnal stock Some believe that mans original color was
dark and that mutation of produced by radio
activity such that which produces new species o! Iu
flies laboratory experiments may have led to hghter
skin that they were healthier in northern climates where