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Oregon GOP Congressional Candidate Sells Racist Book Suggesting Africans Are Like Retarded Children
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Jun 29, 2010 11:46am |
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Category | Commentary |
Author | Bruce Wilson |
News Date | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 05:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Running against Democrat Peter DeFazio for a congressional seat in Oregon's 4th District, Art Robinson is one of the most influential leading Global Warming denialists in America and has proposed dumping radioactive waste and crude oil waste at sea.
But wait! There's more.
For a the better part of a decade at least Robinson has been reprinting, marketing, and selling a virulently racist 19th Century English boys' adventure novel that suggests Africans are like retarded children. "By Sheer Pluck" written by George Alfred Henty, is set in Africa and features a sympathetic character patronizing Africans as "just like children" and declaring, "the intelligence of an average negro is about equal to that of a European child of ten years old... Left alone to their own devices they retrograde into a state little above their native savagery." Over the last decade, Art Robinson's homeschool curriculum business has sold thousands of copies of the book. |
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