Scientific Racism

Scientific Racism- This was discussed in the video Race: The Power of an Illusion, Part II, The Story We Tell as a way to discriminate against blacks and other minorities based on their so-called natural inferiority to white people. Scientists made many biased findings about how whites were superior to all other races basedo n their skull size or natural supremacy. However, they were flawed as American whites thought they were superior to all, British thought they were better than all, and French thought that French were the superior beings. There was a clear bais in these scientists' minds. Takaki also mentions this in chapter 3 "The Giddy Multitude" in his book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America on pp.71-74 throgh Jefferson's use of scientific racism to deny the genius of Phyllis Wheatley and Benjamin Banneker, who were both black, simply because he thought blacks were naturally incapable of possessing a mind capable of writing poetry or doing advanced math.