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11-2-14

This Is the History Behind the Awful Idea that Mankind Is Divided into Races

by Robert Wald Sussman

The new “scientific racism” of the twenty-first century is just the old ideology of 500 years of prejudice dressed up to look new.

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This Is the History Behind the Awful Idea that Mankind Is Divided into Races

by Robert Wald Sussman