Word: racialization
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...like the efforts of certain nebulous-minded New Dealers to force racial equality upon us in the South, but at least they are using only propaganda and not pistols...
...Weller's own conclusions are based essentially on the idea of eternal racial antagonism. Japan, he insists, is "America's enemy for all time." Japan will never forgive defeat, and there will never be a "common ground of ethical beliefs" for the two countries. Consequently, America must take under her "full and unequivocal" administration such bases as Singapore, New Caledonia, Cam Ranh Bay, Penang. A "tradition of [American] political activity" must be created south of the Chinese coast ports...
These mapmakers, our leaders, have blinded themselves to racial issues. Using the archaic pattern of segregation, they have interposed it upon all problems in their search for solutions. Although medical and chemical research has proven that the blood of Negroes does not in the least differ from that of whites, the Red Cross continues to set it apart from "regular" blood. Although men in the Army, as human beings, react similarly to given stimuli, the War Department insists upon segregating Negroes from whites...
...family life. The other road leads to the development of the Negro within his own sphere. The latter would mean the serious organization of the Negro culture on a plane with that of other races. Segregation, if you like, but for development--not as a care-all for diseased racial relations...
Within this framework, says Author Allen, will be action "deep in implication." Subthemes will concern the effects of revenge as a racial policy, "the sentimental tradition that we are a merciful and kindly people," the acts of savagery that may arise out of "infantile compulsions." But basic to all will be the idea that the first Americans were neither revolutionaries nor reorganizers. They were "disinherited," and "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...