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July 14, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Did White People Invent the Idea of Race?
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Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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Many of the things we're supposed to think about race are so obviously wrong, you wonder if anyone believes them.
One is the idea that race has nothing to do with biology and is just a social construct.
And we're also supposed to think that Europeans are the only people who ever came up with the idea of race.
In her huge bestseller, The new Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander explains.
The concept of race is a relatively recent development.
Only in the past few centuries, owing largely to European imperialism, have the world's people been classified along racial lines.
Time magazine explains everything in an article called Facing America's History of Racism Requires Facing the Origins of Race as a Concept.
Wow. Race grew out of an elaborate and supposedly scientific European conception of the human species that began during the Enlightenment.
And you know what happened next?
Europeans and their cultural descendants in the United States engineered the most complete and enduring dehumanization of a people in history.
Cortland Malloy in the Washington Post explains how American oligarchs created the concept of race to divide and conquer the poor.
Not European scientists, I guess.
He adds, So, what about people who actually know something?
This is a 2004 book called The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity by Benjamin Isaac.
Classical antiquity came just a little bit before American oligarchs.
On page 148 of this book, Professor Isaac summarizes the ideas of the Greeks and Romans.
There is a long-standing tradition in Greek and Latin literature of idealizing the concepts of unmixed origin, pure lineage, and autochthony.
Autochthony means being the original people in a place.
This entails explicit statements that intermarriage between peoples produces descendants of inferior quality, physical, mental, and moral, while consistent marriage between men and women belonging to the same people will result in superior beings.
The quality of an entire people is determined by lineage and origin only, and will be stable if protected against outside contamination.
Autochthony assumes a physical relationship between man and land which, by definition, turns an immigrant or descendant of immigrants into a human being.
No, this isn't a summary of Mein Kampf.
It's what the Greeks and Romans thought.
Professor Isaac says Aristotle taught that there was such a huge difference between Greeks and their enemies to the east that the latter should be conquered and treated like plants and animals.
The Egyptian book of Gates dates from the New Kingdom, or from the 16th to the 11th centuries BC.
It's about the gates the soul passes through after death.
3,500 years ago, Egyptians recognized what they called the four races of man, Libyan, Nubian, Asiatic, and Egyptian.
Here's another depiction of the different races.
The Egyptians enslaved blacks.
Here is a Nubian with ropes around his neck.
Here's another Nubian from about 1300 BC.
The original is in the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
Here is an Egyptian pharaoh crushing his foes as dogs attack them.
They are clearly black and are clearly different from the pharaoh.
Arabs were keenly aware of race.
This book, Race and Slavery in the Middle East, tells you all about it.
In the 9th century, al-Jahiz of Basra wrote a book about animals.
He also wrote about black Africans, whom he called Zanj.
We know that the Zanj are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind and least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
Al-Masoudi was a 10th century historian known as the Herodotus of the Arabs.
He wrote that the Zanj are people of black color, flat noses, kinky hair, and little understanding or intelligence.
Arabs didn't like whites either.
Abu Firas al-Hamadani was an Iraqi Arab writing in the 10th century.
Here he is on a Syrian postage stamp.
He complained about what he called the infants dropped from the wombs of Slavs.
He said they were bleached and leprous colored.
But Africans were worse.
They were overdone in the womb until they were burned so that the child comes out something between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions.
Imin Butlan, shown here on the left, lived in Baghdad in the 11th century and wrote of Zanj women.
Dancing and rhythm are instinctive and ingrained in them, but there is no pleasure to be got from them because the smell of their armpits and the coarseness of their bodies.
The thousand and one Arabian nights are full of blacks who are usually depicted as stupid and oversexed.
There are also insulting references to Europeans.
Ibn Khaldun lived in the 14th century and was one of the great philosophers of the Middle Ages.
He wrote, The Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery because Negroes have little that is essentially human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals.
This is a slave market in Zabid, a town in Yemen.
This image was made in 1237.
The buyers and sellers are Arabs.
The slaves are black.
Muslims also took whites as slaves.
But there was a distinction.
They were called mamluk, which means owned.
Only black slaves were called abd, and the word became so associated with blacks that in many Arabic dialects, abd means both black and slave.
The popular first name Abdullah means slave of God.
A mamluk or white slave could rise to become a general or a provincial governor.
This was virtually impossible.
Muslims prized white women as sex slaves.
The Englishman Edward Lane lived in Egypt from 1833 to 1835 and wrote a book called An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians.
He wrote that a white slave girl cost six to twenty times as much as a black slave girl.
That's a high price to pay for a social construct invented by Europeans.
People discover race wherever they go.
Arab traders brought black slaves to China during the Tang Dynasty, which was from 690 to 907 AD.
They were considered hopelessly stupid.
One Chinese wrote this of black slaves.
After having been kept a long time, they begin to understand the language of human beings, though they themselves cannot speak it.
The Japanese shut their country up for 200 years until 1853.
They were astonished at the sight of Europeans.
Here is an 1861 print.
Note the crowd of Japanese goggling at these strange creatures.
These whites would have looked as exotic to the Japanese as baboons or zebras.
Note how differently the facial features of Japanese and Europeans are drawn.
The Japanese had a series of insulting names for Europeans.
Long-nosed barbarians, blue-eyed barbarians, and stinking of butter because they thought their strange diet made them smell bad.
There was a huge market for prints like these because most Japanese never got a good look at a European or close enough to sniff one.
And believe me, I have just skimmed the surface.
Everyone in the world notices race.
Lefties would have you believe that throughout history, when an Asian met an African, he said to himself, gee, he looks and acts and thinks just like me.
Well, Muslims have practiced slavery for about as long as there have been Muslims, about 1,500 years.
They traded blacks for at least 1,000 years and took countless slaves from Slavic lands as early as the 9th century.
From 1530 to 1780, Arab pirates caught at least a million Europeans all around the Mediterranean and as far away as England and Iceland.
Slaves were so plentiful and cheap, masters just worked them to death and bought more.
White galley slaves, chained to their oars, might never leave the ship and were tossed overboard at the first sign of weakness.
But then, along came white people, invented the false idea of race, and, to quote Time magazine, we engineered the most complete and enduring dehumanization of a people in history.
Do they believe this stuff, or do they deliberately lie to us?
In either case, it's pure baloney, and I hope that they choke on it.
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