H.G. Wells once said “those swarms of blacks, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people ... will have to go.” He said this in connection with the society of eugenics, whose philosophy he openly advocated. I was ignorant of this fact until now, and I was apalled at hearing this remark. What might be the odds of finding a person having read "Time Machine" and appreciated it. However, this remark was made in the later part of the nineteenth century, where apartheid was the lingo. It's further awful to know that the discoverer of DNA, James Watson claims that white people are relatively more intelligent than people who are coloured. So much so that he goes on to say that the future of Africa is questionable. It's baffling how anyone can rank anyone else's intellect on the basis of their colour, in so much as to decide a continent's fate.
It's not coincidental that I'm mentioning this in the recent backdrop of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., an American black scholar and professor at Harvard University. He was back home, and forced open the front door, which was wrongly concluded by a neighbour as an act of burglary. Indeed what appeared to be a misunderstanding initially, turned out to be a major event that attracted not only news headlines but also got people raising the topic of racism. And ironically this happens at a time when the President of America, happens to be African American. Well however it's not totally out of context to bring this up, as the fact of the matter is, it reflects on yet how the blacks are perceived to be stigmatic to society. It's nevertheless true that a small community that cannot fend for themselves have to inevitably adopt to unlawful acts to survive and this illegitimacy has proved to be a burden for the rest. But to come to an unreasonable conclusion as happened in the Gates case, has proved to be quite unproductive. The arrest was certainly uncalled for, especially after providing evidence that it was his own house, by producing an ID bearing his name and addresss.
This really points to a more pertinent question, what do people really fear about the blacks? Why would people like H.G Wells go to the extent of saying that "they should go..". Indeed once they were conducted, what are known as acts of sterilization to get rid of these so-called less intellectual minds. Why have a eugenics society at all? Doesn't nature do the job of favouring the better species on its own, and hasn't it wisely come to the conclusion that humans have the survivng streak. Why make a differentiation at all?
