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.....science sought to prove the bestiality of black males by using his superior penis size as proof of an animalistic relationship. The penis became racialized. The sexual libido of the African was equated to the sex drive of the sub-Saharan African male Baboons whose phallus is almost always erect and if a male boon is locked alone in a cage, he will eventually die from his unsatisfied desire to copulate. The smell of a female can drive a male baboon to insanity. “Some explorers…argued that the ape was the offspring of the Negro and some unknown African beast.” (Spears, 1991) “Nowhere was the supposed link between the African’s penis and his bestial sexuality cited more often, or more insistently than in the United States. There, the image of the African slave as a walking penis had another origin separate from speculations emanating from specimen jars or the Bible.” (Freedman, 2001)

Using pseudo scientific theories to prove the inferiority of black males, prominent scientist erroneously and calculatingly theorized that the European brain was larger than the African. The Caucasian’s larger brain proved his intellectual superiority and civilized status, but the Negro’s larger penis proved his intellectual inferiority and innate savagery. Although Edward Tyson (1650-1708) is regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy, which compares the anatomy between species, Professor Blumenbach, a professor of medicine at Gottingen University was the first scholar to show the value of comparative anatomy in the study of human history. Ironically, he was one of the only intellectuals of his era to reject the notion of African inferiority. “…most racial thinkers based many of their important conclusions on the same criterion-the African’s penis. It was stared at, feared (and in some cases desired), weighed, interpreted via scripture, meditated on by zoologist and anthropologist, preserved in specimen jars, and most of all, calibrated. And, in nearly every instance, its size was deemed proof that the Negro was less a man than a beast.” (Freidman 2001)

The myth about racism is that the word applies only to extremist hate groups and “an insignificant section of the population” (Leech, 1999). People who deny racism or who through their privileged social positions are shielded from suffering the stringent effects of past and current racism comfortably, hold this view. Philomena Essed, a Surinamese sociologist, states in Everyday Racism, (1991) “The notion that whites, because of their skin colour and ‘culture’, are superior to other peoples, and on that basis, should also be able to exercise power and control over them, is a colonial inheritance. It has been passed implicitly from generation to generation. Feelings of superiority are included so naturally in the socialization of whites, in their upbringing, their education, the media, politics - in short, in the entire organization and functioning of society- that many whites do not recognize the racism in their attitudes and behavior toward blacks”



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