Where Is Wisdom?, p 389-390; “…the writer calls attention to the well-known distinct primary divisions of the human race now on the earth, namely, the Caucasian, the Mongolian, and the Negroid; and that these branches of mankind differ not only in bodily appearance but especially in mental qualities. The black skin of the Negro is not simply an excessive sunburn; no Caucasian becomes black, however long he may reside in tropical climates; and no Negro born and bred in temperate climates ever becomes white.
Well now we have quite the problem here don’t we?
If dark people can’t turn white then please explain to me what happened to the Lamanites turning dark and then white.
I’m waiting…
Intermarriage between members of these great racial divisions are possible, but the progeny are usually feeble, not long-lived, and of poor physical quality; and no permanent self-propagating, homogeneous races can be generated by such intermarriages. Hence these different classes of mankind amount in effect to a difference in species. The Caucasian branch is characterized by a very superior inventive and originative power. All the great inventions of the human race and conquest of the natural energies of nature have come to the world through them. The important tools, instruments for land cultivation and food production, the invention of the steam engine, electric motor, telegraph, telephone, railway, steamship, magnetic compass, sewing machine, and an infinity of other inventions have originated through the Caucasian race. The yellow and black races have contributed nothing to this work. They have added nothing to new scientific or philosophical ideas.” – Stephen L. Richards, 1955
Let’s begin with the intermarriage subject and people not living a long time. I can only speak for myself and what I’ve witnessed in my family, but if someone in my father’s side of the family dies before they’re 90 years old everyone’s in shock that they died so young.
My father’s side has black ancestry and my mother’s side doesn’t. Her side of the family typically lives a long time as well, but they don’t live as long as those on my father’s side.
Another thing to take note of here is the date. 1955.
This man said the black race hadn’t contributed to the telephone, railway, or land cultivation.
On the contrary, George Washington Carver implored people to take better care of the land. He found that clear-cutting forests here in America is what contributed to poor crop productions. Remember, this guy was a botanist.
As for the other claims? Take a look at our list and you’ll see that railways, communication systems and even a type of new-fangled sewing machine helped make Mr. Richard’s shoes stay together and his overall life more comfortable.
Oh and by the way, many of these inventors came from a mixed racial background.
Imagine that.
George Crum – potato chips
George Washington Carver – peanut butter
Norbert Rellieux – sugar refining machine
Jan Matzeliger – shoe lasting machine (machine attaches sole to shoes which made shoes stronger)
George Edward Alcorn, Jr. – imaging x-ray spectrometer
Lewis Latimer – long lasting light bulb
Granville Woods – variation of induction telegraph
Patricia Baths – type of eye surgery using lasers
Garrett Morgan – gas mask, traffic lights
Frederick McKinley Jones – refrigeration systems for long-haul truckers
Philip B Downing – street letter drop mailbox
Charles Richard Drew – surgeon who came up w/idea for blood banks
Sarah S Goode – Murphy bed
Elijah McCoy – high quality steam engine lubricator – this is where the phrase ‘the real McCoy came from. If you wanted anything high quality or the real thing.
Clatonia Joaquin Dorticus – paper embossing machine
Marie Van Bittan Brown – home security systems
Philip Emeagawli – world’s fastest computer
James West – acoustical microphone (found in telephones)