Space X and the Photo-Op: Trump’s Use of the Bible Was Just the Latest in a Series of Christian Nationalist Messages
…e praised Musk—a quasi-eugenicist whose family capitalized on apartheid in South Africa—and other “risk-taking” investors as the (wealthy, white) innovators who are leading this “march of civilization.” Nineteenth-century slave owners like Josiah Nott used this same expression to argue that “the negro race” did not have the capacity for “self-government.” An anthropologist and early proponent of the theory that negroes have smaller brains than whi…
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