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BY Nii Ntreh, 12:00pm February 23, 2021,

Four times pseudoscientific concepts were invented to uphold white supremacy

by Nii Ntreh, 12:00pm February 23, 2021,
Armenians and Celts in the Bible - Joseph Arthur de Gobineau | Art-A-Tsolum
French novelist Arthur de Gobineau was the 19th century’s most popular advocate of the myth of the destruction of human civilization if miscegenation was permitted. Photo Credit: Wikipedia

The intrinsic vice of miscegenation

One of the under-mentioned features of Black presence in the European colonies in the New World was how fervently White people defended the purity of their kind against ‘soiling’ by others in procreation. Race mixing, as it was called, was thought to sink down the inherent psychic, physical and social quality of whiteness.

The French novelist, Arthur de Gobineau, was one the 19th century’s relentless proponent. Indeed, the intrinsic vice of miscegenation was the basis for the American illegality of having race-mixed kids, an illegality that would take until 1967 to rewrite.

Last Edited by:Nii Ntreh Updated: February 23, 2021

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