Raffey
2 min readJan 16, 2022

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James, stop channeling think tanks and read my comment again and note the dates of the quotes I cited.

After that, study Andrew Carnegie and HBCUs.

The Carnegie Institution’s involvement in eugenics dates back to 1902. Two years after Hitler came to power, the Carnegie Institution concluded that their eugenics research lacked scientific merit and began closing down all eugenics-related research.

It was 2018, before the Carnegie Institution “PUBLICLY” acknowledged their role in systemic-racism, and I quote.

“At this pivotal moment in our nation’s history, it is appropriate for us, both as individuals and as institutions, to reflect on our pasts and take responsibility for the ways in which our actions have contributed to our society’s systemic racism.

Since then, we have expressed our institutional distress over the impact of these actions by attempting to distance ourselves from our involvement in this morally reprehensible endeavor. There is no excuse, then or now, for our institution’s previous willingness to empower researchers who sought to pervert scientific inquiry to justify their own racist and ableist prejudices. Our support of eugenics made us complicit in driving decades of brutal and unconscionable actions by governments in the United States and around the world. As the President of the Carnegie Institution for Science, I want to express my sincere and profound apologies for this organization’s past involvement in these horrific pseudoscientific activities”

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https://carnegiescience.edu/carnegie-institution-science-statement-eugenics-research

James, please don’t waste your time on me. I am not trying to educate or influence you. I comment for other people — not you.

From your first job that you wrote about here on Medium until now, you have viewed your life through a racist’s lens. If you had become an investigative reporter, we’d be having an entirely different conversation. You are too old, to start doing that work now.

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