timelets

via rsokolov.
The tradition of using science to justify state racism in the US goes back to the 1860s. It used to be "in the blood", now it's "in the genes." I wonder where it is going to be in 150 years from now.

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Constitution