it was taken very seriously at the time and so was samuel cartwright.twright was not a french character at all. he was a nationally prominent physician, a high-ranking officer from fairfax, virginia, he went to penn medical school.ro he was a credentialed man of science, a man who commanded the respect of the country. 50 years after the civil war, one of this nation's leading medical dictionaries continued an entry for this. so with retrospect, we would call samuel cartwright a bigot, which he undoubtably was. but he was more than that. he was a practitioner of something called scientific racism.ue it scientific racism is deeper than simple prejudice. it is the use of science to justify the dominance of one group over another group. they have a history as long as science, simply because of the impulse to dominate is inherent to human nature. so it's not really about color, though it is called racism, instead it is called power. dr. seuss wrote about this, you may want to talk a look at what they wrote, assuming you can still buy the books. scientific ra

samuel cartwright? rights into bose review, which is a kind of time magazine of slavery that freedom seeking black folks suffered from drapettomania and and i'm pronouncing it like that. so you will get a sense of hard to spell dr. a p e t o m a n i a it is the desire to want to run away and and the insidious thing about this is that it would it's an attempt to steal agency from black people as if we don't know the difference between freedom and oppression that if we recognize something we we it must be a virus. it must be some sort of pathogen that's making us do this because we wouldn't do it. otherwise, of course and and so he can't right and several others of his ilk came up with a raft of fake diseases another one is diastasia ethiopica or hebrew food of the mind which made us want to break tools and and put ground glass in masters buttermilk and things like that in other words again. not that we had a conscious desire to it, but that it was some pathogen pushing us to make these kinds of actions w

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