“In general, European scholarship has been leading in the creation of the [white supremacist] belief system. In fact, I think it would be safe to say that without the scholars, there would’ve been no racism because they helped to create the belief system with authenticity. If a professor of biology says that Africans are inferior, if a professor of theology says it, it’s different than having a man on the street say it. [I]n tracing the history of racism, we don’t have to speculate about this. There are many good books on the history of racism led by scholars in academic institutions. A good example would be the book by Allan Chase called The Legacy of Malthus and there are many others [such as] The Leopard Spots by [William] Stanton. There are many books that studies the seminal role that scholars have played in creating these [negative] images of Africans.”

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