The most perfect expression of the white ideal…Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2013-03-20 04:00Z by Steven |
Virginia has made the first serious attempt to stay or postpone the evil day when this is no longer a white man’s country. Her recently enacted law “for the preservation of racial integrity” is, in the words of Major E. S. [Earnest Sevier] Cox, “the most perfect expression of the white ideal, and the most important eugenical effort that has been made during the past 4,000 years.”
W. A. Plecker, “Virginia’s Attempt to Adjust the Color Problem,” The American Journal of Public Health, Volume 15, Number 2 (1925): 111-115. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1320724/.