This article from 1949 is ... um ... interesting. A little disconcerting.

[eppur_se_muova]

It's worth reading the whole thing. Worth wondering how much has changed. And worth wondering why the predictions were a little off, for better or worse.

Sorry about the format. If anyone finds a better source, please post.




For those w/access to JSTOR, here is an article about the article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40604896

Lots of comments when this article was republished at wordpress: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/has-science-conquered-the-color-line/

[intrepidity]

1. Walter White, eh? nt

[Yoyoyo77]

2. That's his real name. It's not a joke.

He was the head of the NAACP for about 20 years. The article misconstrues his bloodline, his parents were both freed slaves and his mom was one the slave masters children. I really doubt that he was involved with the message they're trying to sell here.

[LakeArenal]

3. So weird.

It’s poisonous at this print but they’ve been giving it to this woman for a year?

Wouldn’t the new white people still bear black children? Can we pre birth whiten them?

[Hortensis]

4. The changes from that era to this are ENORMOUS. It's a different world.

This post has to go back to then to show then. Think about it.

Those whose outrage at change they don't understand have come together in a perfect storm of planetary anxiety and are having a moment, but they've already lost.

They've been losing all their lives.

[Dan]

5. I remember an article like this...

in the early 60s. There was a person that used some product, and it ended up with him have streaks of white on his skin. What a nut I thought at the time....