The 1943 pamphlet The Races of Mankind, written by Colombia University anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish is a key piece of information in the anti-racism movement. Straight propaganda, this race denial pamphlet was marketed to American troops and the German people during WWII. The message put forth is that there are no basic differences (physical or mental) between the races of the world. Pathetically, it attempts to pass off that the dissimilarities in peoples result from superficial environmental influences rather than biology.
The pamphlet was written in simple language with cartoon illustrations and aimed to make the (((scientific))) case against “racist” beliefs. It was intended to educate military personnel about the cultural differences among the peoples of the world in preparation for their fighting with a variety of allies from other cultures (races). Exceptionally, citing no source, the pamphlet claimed that Blacks from the Northern USA had on average scored substantially higher on IQ tests than Whites from the Southern USA, supposedly due to a higher poverty in the South.
The Races of Mankind represented the Boasian way of thinking about race, which later unfortunately became the standard view in anthropology and was endorsed with a 1948 UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) declaration. At the time, its contention that race was socially constructed was politically controversial, especially in the American South, where White Democrats had long maintained racial segregation.
The publication of Races of Mankind and the subsequent political furor that it caused during this time, when it was decried as a piece of socialist propaganda, attracted the attention of anti-Communist authorities. It was not widely circulated within the Army, and by the early 1950’s, it was banned as subversive. Some “far-right” political groups in the USA still consider the work to be part of a conspiracy by jewish anthropologist Franz Boas and his students (both of which the authors were) to eliminate the study of race in psychology and anthropology in “preparation for the defeat of ‘White Civilization’ by the jews.”
Unlike many other prominent Boasian anthropologists, Benedict was not (openly) jewish, but Weltfish was. Some of Boas’s most famous non-jewish followers were also at odds with American society: Margaret Mead was a bisexual and Ruth Benedict was a lesbian. Thus, the Boasians shared an out-group sensibility, a commitment to a common viewpoint and a program to dominate the institutional structure of anthropology. Boas, like Freud, deliberately recruited and publicly promoted some non-jews out of concern that his jewishness would make his science appear partisan and thus compromised.
Weltfish was engaged in “social activism” during the 1940’s, and she attracted the attention of the FBI, which suspected her (and others on the “Left”) of being a communist. In 1952 and 1953 she was called to Congress for questioning by two of the Senate sub-committees dedicated to investigating un-American activity during the 1950’s red scare. Two weeks before appearing at a 1953 hearing, in which she refused to answer questions from staffer attorney Roy Cohn and Senator Joseph McCarthy as to whether she was a communist, her 16-year appointment at Columbia was terminated. She was blacklisted and unable to find an academic position for nearly a decade.
Weltfish explained in this memo from October 24, 1967 why she wrote the pamphlet:
During the first four years of my graduate training at Columbia, Hitler rose to power in Germany, bolstering his heinous operations with racist theories developed from distorted anthropology. The books of Franz Boas were burned in Germany. In 1942, after [Boas’] death, Ruth Benedict, my senior colleague in the Anthropology Department, and I felt that we should carry the banner on the race question. In 1943, Ruth Benedict and I collaborated on a pamphlet, “The Races of Mankind,” published by the Public Affairs Committee. The pamphlet was originally written at the request of the U.S.O. for distribution to the men in the armed forces who had to fight side by side with allies such as the Huks in the Philippines and the Soloman Islanders. “The Races of Mankind” was used, not only for orientation by the army, but in the de-Nazification program in Germany after the war.”
The authors state such things as this in the pamphlet:
The world is shrinking. Thirty-four nations are now united in a common cause—victory over Axis aggression, the military destruction of fascism.”
The nations united against fascism, they continue, include:
The most different physical types of men.”
Benedict and Weltfish explicate, in section after section, the best evidence they know for (((human equality))):
All the peoples of the earth are a single family and have a common origin. We all have just so many teeth, so many molars, just so many little bones and muscles—so we can only have come from one set of ancestors no matter what our color, the shape of our head, the texture of our hair. The races of mankind are what the Bible says they are—brothers. In their bodies is the record of their brotherhood.”
The pamphlet is now in the public domain and is thus available in its entirety, courtesy of The Internet Archive.
The Brotherhood of Man
The Brotherhood of Man is a 1946 animated cartoon based on The Races of Mankind pamphlet. It was animated by John Hubley, who also created Mr. Magoo. Every person in the cartoon has an evil twin in the form of a little green demon that represents “prejudice” and “racial hatred.”
The amount of propaganda in this 10 minute cartoon is absolutely mind zoggling, especially in regards to racial anthropology.
The Race Question
The Race Question is the title of a 1950 declaration by (UNESCO). UNESCO describes itself as a Paris based specialized agency of the United Nations (UN). With the purpose of contributing to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter. The core ideological focus of the statement was once again race denialism.
Race denialism is the denial of the existence of politically sensitive aspects of human races, meaning instead of practicing eugenics like we should be, we excuse inferiorities by pretending they don’t exist. And if someone brings those weaknesses up, they need to be silenced at all costs. You can’t get much more anti-Nature than that.
There are several groups of race denialists. The parasite manifests as follows:
- Biological (genetic) races exist, but this only affects areas that are not politically sensitive, such as skin color. Most importantly, race is not connected with any politically sensitive mental characteristic. This was the implicit view of early race denialists (such as early Boasian anthropologists), who found it impossible at this time to completely deny race.
- Biological (genetic) races do not exist, but socially constructed races do. This is the view of adherents of critical race theory, which is a variant of critical theory (the Frankfurt School). Despite the rejection of biological races, the social constructs may still be seen as very important for reasons such as being involved in racism.
- Races do not exist at all.
After WWII, UNESCO was officially requested to create a propaganda campaign, which should be “disseminating scientific facts designed to remove what is generally known as racial prejudice.” A majority of the authors were sociologists and the main author was the jewish anthropologist Ashley Montagu. The declaration recognized the existence of races, but at the same time made many controversial claims and demands. No source was given for the claims. At the time the publication was followed by widespread criticisms by critics, who saw it as an attempt to politically decide what should be the scientific truth.
The introduction to the declaration stated, without citing any sources, that the race situation in Brazil was in:
harmony and favorable and, in many ways, exemplary.”
In addition to The Race Question statement, UNESCO organized a series of conferences supposedly against racism. The World Conference Against Racism conferences have been held in 1978, 1983, 2001, and 2009.
The conferences have been boycotted by some countries, for reasons such as:
- Attempts to equate criticism of religion with racism and to promote blasphemy laws.
- Demands for reparations for slavery, only demanded from Western countries.
- Criticisms of Israel and Zionism.
The very thing we are told is the worst thing to be, is the only thing that can save us from our current plight. Return to your roots and become racinated.