It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

Nelson Mandela
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy...
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy...
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy...
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy...
About This Quote

This quote from Edward Douglass White, an African American physicist and director of the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, was published in the June 1954 issue of Atlantic Monthly. White stated that racism was not a product of science but instead a product of ignorance. He said that racism was a product of ignorance and that education would bring about change. This idea is important because it is no longer true.

Racism has become a part of science and has morphed into something more vile and sinister than ever thought possible. It is no longer an ignorant thing and now it is something known as “scientific racism.”

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

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