Eugenics weren’t first used on the Jews, by the Nazis. The American eugenics movement, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, promoted selective breeding and sterilization to “improve” the population. Some proponents advocated or tolerated public health neglect to eliminate “undesirable” groups.
The broader eugenics movement in the U.S. was driven by figures such as Charles Davenport and organizations like the Eugenics Record Office (ERO). It was funded by influential philanthropies, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman family, which supported sterilization laws and racial hygiene programs that later influenced Nazi policies.
An attorney scheduled an appointment in the Boston area at a colleague's office. Not knowing how unpredictable traffic was, I arrived early & wandered the neighborhood. Neighborhood was clearly poor - CHECK CASHING/PAYDAY LOAN business, lots of JUNK FOOD places.
I wandered through local stores, checked prices of household goods & clothing. The prices were 3 or 4 times the cost of ordering ON LINE. If you don't have a credit card or internet access or a safe place for delivery, you're paying the price.
Very few cars visible which means public transportation was a necessity - an additional cost & time invested.
There was no BANK, LIBRARY or POST OFFICE.
The recognition of the lack of access should concern us all.
Recently, I got lost in a poor neighborhood, passed a POST OFFICE & stopped for directions. The line of customers filled the building because there were only 2 windows for service. This was AM on a week day. My only thought was 'this wouldn't happen in a WHITE neighborhood!'
I encourage everyone to wander through a POOR NEIGHBORHOOD!
Learning from my grandfather and father as a young person about saving. It was eye-opening how one person paid a different amount for a car than someone else. That was hard to grasp, but a lesson I have used.
There are so many things to abhor from the current administration, but the one that I find most repellent is the anti-DEI/woke BS. Any serious person should know this. What's playing out right now is the blowback Isabel Wilkerson wrote so compellingly about in "Caste." If only that book, and the new one you cite here were required reading for all Americans, most especially White Americans.
I worked for the National Park Service for decades. For some time, the agency has made a concerted effort to be more inclusive of representing the fuller breadth of American history. I helped administer programs to expand interpretation to tell the untold parts of the American story, the ones this administration wants stripped from all programs/websites, etc. It is beyond shameful.
Thank you, Steven, for again steering us to truth. We still have so much work to do on equality in America, and cannot let the clown show currently in DC deter us. They must be voted out so we together can restart government by and for all peoples.
Alliances are still being formed to strategize how best to succeed in the face of relentless pushback against all things minority, non-white male. Alliances can learn from the failures and successes of the civil rights era. I suggest that white America will now be facing the loss of its wealth as we hand over federal dollars to billionaires. White America will be feeling its version of powerlessness in a contemporary Jim Crow era.
I cite two other books that offer lessons from the civil rights history: The Young Crusaders, the Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement, by V.P. Franklin; and Waging a Good War, by Thomas E. Ricks.
To compound this, and no one has written about this move yet, at least not who I subscribe to, has said all that much about the whitification of the Smithsonian Museums which, of course, will basically shutter the Black History Museum and the Native American Museum. I understand that a Women’s History Museum in the works will probably never open. Statues that show diversity around DC(thinking about the statue dedicated to the nurses in the Viet Nam War as well as the moving Korean War Memorial). I wonder too if they’ll be whitifying the WW II Memorial, scratching names from the Viet Nam Wall. What will be next; Arlington National Cemetery? We already know he doesn’t give a shit about our fighting men and women buried there. It’s probably just as well the Unknown Soldier is unknown or 47 would likely defile that tomb as well. He’s going to try to be as ruthless as the Taliban was in erasing as much history of those he hates as he can in the time he has. I shudder to think what might happen should he try to mess with the Library of Congress.
A good example of one of American's dirty little secrets that we have never fully admitted or confronted in an honest way. And now we are confronted with a threat that may just lead to the end of America's experiment of liberty and justice for all. Will you fight for what you are about to loose?
BLACK COMMUNITIES have been historically attacked. We all know about the false claims that led to HANGINGS, but...what about the 1985 bombing of PHILADELPHIA?
Even EDGAR HOOVER invested great effort destroying the BLACK COMMUNITY with his lies & killings.
The day Philadelphia bombed its own people
An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever.
What's interesting in recent history is the continued attempt to focus on racism, bigotry & oppression, expending massive governmental energy & effort to perpetuate oppression, ignoring all other issues.
RED STATES governed by Republicans ignore their failing education, health care, lack of economic opportunity, high poverty - but focus on trivia & targeting like bathroom regulations, same sex marriage, TRANS issues....
Several states can't educate kids, but insist on 10 COMMANDMENTS in classrooms as if that will magically compensate for their educational failures....or that buying overpriced TRUMP BIBLES printed in CHINA will educate kids.
By GOP DESIGN, they lack internet & cable access, lack libraries, & are propagandized with SINCLAIR as their sole news source.
President Biden attempted to introduce inexpensive CABLE ACCESS with limited success.
APRIL 5 HANDS OFF defined the nation! Let's move forward!
All Americans deserve to share!
In a previous life, I made collection calls across the nation. It included far too many who signed CREDIT APPLICATIONS with an "X." This is NOT AMERICA!
This is the time to stand, shout, and act if you are not already doing so.
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” – Elie Wiesel
Eugenics weren’t first used on the Jews, by the Nazis. The American eugenics movement, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, promoted selective breeding and sterilization to “improve” the population. Some proponents advocated or tolerated public health neglect to eliminate “undesirable” groups.
The broader eugenics movement in the U.S. was driven by figures such as Charles Davenport and organizations like the Eugenics Record Office (ERO). It was funded by influential philanthropies, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman family, which supported sterilization laws and racial hygiene programs that later influenced Nazi policies.
An attorney scheduled an appointment in the Boston area at a colleague's office. Not knowing how unpredictable traffic was, I arrived early & wandered the neighborhood. Neighborhood was clearly poor - CHECK CASHING/PAYDAY LOAN business, lots of JUNK FOOD places.
I wandered through local stores, checked prices of household goods & clothing. The prices were 3 or 4 times the cost of ordering ON LINE. If you don't have a credit card or internet access or a safe place for delivery, you're paying the price.
Very few cars visible which means public transportation was a necessity - an additional cost & time invested.
There was no BANK, LIBRARY or POST OFFICE.
The recognition of the lack of access should concern us all.
Recently, I got lost in a poor neighborhood, passed a POST OFFICE & stopped for directions. The line of customers filled the building because there were only 2 windows for service. This was AM on a week day. My only thought was 'this wouldn't happen in a WHITE neighborhood!'
I encourage everyone to wander through a POOR NEIGHBORHOOD!
Poverty is expensive!
History can teach us so much, but unfortunately facts have never gotten in the way of conservative policies.
Learning from my grandfather and father as a young person about saving. It was eye-opening how one person paid a different amount for a car than someone else. That was hard to grasp, but a lesson I have used.
There are so many things to abhor from the current administration, but the one that I find most repellent is the anti-DEI/woke BS. Any serious person should know this. What's playing out right now is the blowback Isabel Wilkerson wrote so compellingly about in "Caste." If only that book, and the new one you cite here were required reading for all Americans, most especially White Americans.
I worked for the National Park Service for decades. For some time, the agency has made a concerted effort to be more inclusive of representing the fuller breadth of American history. I helped administer programs to expand interpretation to tell the untold parts of the American story, the ones this administration wants stripped from all programs/websites, etc. It is beyond shameful.
Thank you, Steven, for again steering us to truth. We still have so much work to do on equality in America, and cannot let the clown show currently in DC deter us. They must be voted out so we together can restart government by and for all peoples.
I'll be asking for this book at the library, thanks for the recommendation
Alliances are still being formed to strategize how best to succeed in the face of relentless pushback against all things minority, non-white male. Alliances can learn from the failures and successes of the civil rights era. I suggest that white America will now be facing the loss of its wealth as we hand over federal dollars to billionaires. White America will be feeling its version of powerlessness in a contemporary Jim Crow era.
I cite two other books that offer lessons from the civil rights history: The Young Crusaders, the Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement, by V.P. Franklin; and Waging a Good War, by Thomas E. Ricks.
To compound this, and no one has written about this move yet, at least not who I subscribe to, has said all that much about the whitification of the Smithsonian Museums which, of course, will basically shutter the Black History Museum and the Native American Museum. I understand that a Women’s History Museum in the works will probably never open. Statues that show diversity around DC(thinking about the statue dedicated to the nurses in the Viet Nam War as well as the moving Korean War Memorial). I wonder too if they’ll be whitifying the WW II Memorial, scratching names from the Viet Nam Wall. What will be next; Arlington National Cemetery? We already know he doesn’t give a shit about our fighting men and women buried there. It’s probably just as well the Unknown Soldier is unknown or 47 would likely defile that tomb as well. He’s going to try to be as ruthless as the Taliban was in erasing as much history of those he hates as he can in the time he has. I shudder to think what might happen should he try to mess with the Library of Congress.
A good example of one of American's dirty little secrets that we have never fully admitted or confronted in an honest way. And now we are confronted with a threat that may just lead to the end of America's experiment of liberty and justice for all. Will you fight for what you are about to loose?
We, are in fact the majority. We are not bending. We shall erase any difference
BLACK COMMUNITIES have been historically attacked. We all know about the false claims that led to HANGINGS, but...what about the 1985 bombing of PHILADELPHIA?
Even EDGAR HOOVER invested great effort destroying the BLACK COMMUNITY with his lies & killings.
The day Philadelphia bombed its own people
An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move
How about the TULSA RACE MASSACRE? It is only recently that bodies are being exhumed, identified & given proper burials.
‘Black Wall Street’ Before, During and After the Tulsa Race Massacre: PHOTOS
Historic images of Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood district reveal how the 1921 mob attack devastated the nation's Black cultural and economic mecca.
https://www.history.com/articles/tulsa-massacre-black-wall-street-before-and-after-photos
What's interesting in recent history is the continued attempt to focus on racism, bigotry & oppression, expending massive governmental energy & effort to perpetuate oppression, ignoring all other issues.
RED STATES governed by Republicans ignore their failing education, health care, lack of economic opportunity, high poverty - but focus on trivia & targeting like bathroom regulations, same sex marriage, TRANS issues....
Several states can't educate kids, but insist on 10 COMMANDMENTS in classrooms as if that will magically compensate for their educational failures....or that buying overpriced TRUMP BIBLES printed in CHINA will educate kids.
By GOP DESIGN, they lack internet & cable access, lack libraries, & are propagandized with SINCLAIR as their sole news source.
President Biden attempted to introduce inexpensive CABLE ACCESS with limited success.
APRIL 5 HANDS OFF defined the nation! Let's move forward!
All Americans deserve to share!
In a previous life, I made collection calls across the nation. It included far too many who signed CREDIT APPLICATIONS with an "X." This is NOT AMERICA!