Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Was the British Empire a racist enterprise or commercial venture?" video.

  1. From the time of the first use of the word, race, which I think was in the 1500s, and like you say, it meant breed, (human in our case), and just a little after that, they used it to describe a group of people that spoke a common language, it meant something other than today. I always use the words Semite and Semitic to explain, because in either case, it does not describe Jews or Judaism, even though they call people antisemitic. Both words are about an entire group, stretching from Anatolia to Egypt, or the Near East, which describes a group that speaks the Semitic languages, both Arabic and Hebrew. How they equate that to only the Jews I have no idea. . Anyhow, academics kept adding more to the word race, which is their want to do, by dividing the populous, and completely bastardized the word. It was never meant to define ones physical makeup nor skin color. . I listened to an academic discussion about when that changed, and it was said to have changed to skin color in the Caribbean. Neither, though, were sure about this. By the Civil War, here, in the US, we had an academic called Samuel Morton who was collecting the heads of hanged inmates "for science," and he would use the skulls to make distinctions in physical makeup and IQ. He was described as "the father of scientific racism." What I find hilarious about it, is that he was from Philadelphia, north of the Mason Dixon. Philadelphia has long been associated with left-wing politics over the French and German migrants that settled here by the late 1700s. . https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/ . Now, either we have a very large group of racists teaching today, at the academe, or they are just plain ignorant. If you ask me, I think it's both.
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  2.  Gary Daniel  Sadly, it's like that, and those of us who are older, know better. The younger generation, today, are having their minds completely twisted by corrupt academics, who are supposed to be authorities, and those, under thirty, don't seem capable of noticing it. . There is a professor of history, from Texas A&M, I believe, who is a black woman, that has debunked much of this, especially the false history from the New York Times' 1619 Project, and she is ignored by the media.
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