Negro Rascality And How To Manage Them
Bad-behaving black people -- or negro rascality -- can be easily controlled when certain conditions are present.
That was the opinion of Samuel A. Cartwright, a 19th century physician who wrote frequent articles advising slave owners on proper management of their Negros.
Cartwright believed blacks could be psychologically manipulated, or "spell bound" to use his exact term, by providing them with food, shelter and protection. Fond of coining neologisms, he also used the phrase "genu flexit" when describing "awe and reverence" that could be extracted by blacks, not by treating them as equals, which Cartwright opposed, but by treating them with consideration. Blacks, he said, should be treated like children. That is, blacks needed to be kept.
Cartwright's world view of the antebellum society in which he lived seemed similar to that presented more than a century later in Alex Haley's Roots. Both seem oblivious to the fact that thousands of black entrepreneurs flourished in the Old South; neither acknowledged that thousands of free black southerners were actually slave owners themselves.
Concerning the intellectual capacities of blacks, Cartwright used the phrase "hebetude of the intellectual faculties" which he described "like a person half asleep." He seemed to think evidence of idiocy was more apparent among free blacks than slaves; "free neqroes living in clusters by themselves." Virtually all free blacks were "infected" and, consequently, needed "some white person to direct and to take care of them." He referred to Hayti (Haiti) as an example of black failure in the absence of White management.
Cartwright observed that blacks "are apt to do much mischief, which appears as if intentional, but is mostly owing to the stupidness of mind and insensibility."
"Thus, they break, waste and destroy everything they handle," he wrote, "paying no attention to the rights of property, steal others, to replace what they have destroyed."
He accused blacks of wandering "about at night, and keep in a half nodding sleep during the day."
Blacks are lazy, he wrote, noting "they slight their work."
Cartwright turned his sights on "northern physicians." He complained that, while they acknowledged the symptoms he described, they attributed Neqro rascality to the "debasing influence of slavery on the mind." Cartwright countered that Neqro rascality was as evident in free blacks who had never known slavery as well as in former slaves.
He concluded that "The disease is the natural offspring of neqro liberty--the liberty to be idle, to wallow in filth, and to indulge in improper food and drinks."
Although Cartwright died in 1863, his advice continues to be both respected and practiced in the form of Affirmative Action, appeasement and leniency towards black Americans.
An example of Cartwright's advice can be found in the 1851 edition of DeBow's Review and may be read in its original, unannotated format here.
There is no doubt that Congress did not have Samuel A. Cartwright in mind when it set about to remedy what some have taken to call America's black undertow or what Cartwright called "free neqroes living in clusters." Nonetheless, White liberals have echoed Cartwright's sentiments that black Americans can be pacified, their crime rate reduced and their behavior modified through appeasement.
Note the similarities between Cartwright's approaches and the progressive agenda.
• Meet their physical needs.
"If treated kindly," Cartwright wrote, "well fed and clothed, with fuel enough to keep a small fire burning all night--separated into families, each family having its own house . . . they are very easily governed."
Cartwright's advice for pacifying blacks was to keep them housed, fed and warm. The advent of HUD (Housing and Urban Development) and Section 8 housing were provided by social engineers in the post slavery era to extend Cartwright's conclusion that basic provisions would keep blacks content. A century after Cartwright's writing, dependent blacks had been moved from wood-frame houses to units in concrete high rises. There they continued to be "easily governed."
Food stamps, and later EBT cards, provided free food. Taxpayer subsidies helped keep "a small fire burning" in each housing unit.
Those benefits, of course, were not limited to blacks, but a disproportionate amount of tax-funded projects were utilized by blacks. Affirmative Action, on the other hand, is widely regarded as specifically targeting black Americans. It would fit well into Cartwright's strategy for managing Neqro rascality.
• Encourage blacks to have their own culture.
Cartwright held a popular biblical perspective that deemed Neqroes Canaanites, a term that, according to Cartwright, meant "submissive knee-benders." As a subordinate, submissive and inferior race, he understood blacks as being incapable of embracing Western norms.
"[T]hose who made themselves too familiar with them, treating them as equals, and making little or no distinction in regard to color" encouraged slaves to rebel or run away.
Today's social engineers follow Cartwright's advice by encouraging black culture take precedence among black Americans. Ebonics is taught in some schools as if it were a legitimate language. Though striving to physically integrate blacks into White culture, social engineers determine to achieve mental and moral segregation through black cultural identity. The advent of Kwanza, a black alternative to Christmas, is a classic, though failed, example.
While social engineers tout equality and integration as ideals, they divergently encourage black empowerment through black affinity groups such as professional organizations. The Black Caucus in the United State Congress is an example. There are black associations for virtually any profession one can imagine, including an association of black McDonald's franchise owners and an association of black attorneys. Blacks are segregated into groups of psychologists, journalists, police, nurses and even Republicans.
And, of course, there is the Black Entertainment Network. As recent as February, Comcast was compelled by the FCC to "launch 10 new independently owned cable channels, with most backed by African Americans." There are hundreds, if not thousands, of such examples.
"Distinction of color," Cartwright said, was an absolute necessity to controlling Neqro rascality.
Cartwright's philosophy of controlling black 'rascality' through forced segregation is alive and well. By encouraging blacks to embrace a hip-hop culture (or whatever term may currently apply), progressives are assured that blacks will remain mentally, emotionally, and, therefore, physically segregated from Whites, even as the law forbids forced segregation.
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