{"id":58807,"date":"2019-09-01T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58807"},"modified":"2019-09-01T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T03:01:11","slug":"plecker-claimed-that-when-the-english-dutch-and-scottish-landed-on-the-shores-of-north-america-they-came-to-found-a-civilization-of-the-highest-type-not-to-mix-their-blood-with-the-savages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58807","title":{"rendered":"Plecker claimed that when the English, Dutch and Scottish landed on the shores of North America, they came \u201cto found a civilization of the highest type, not to mix their blood with the savages of the land, not to originate a mongrel population.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Ashby_Plecker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Walter] Plecker<\/a> was obsessed with white racial purity, a cause he clearly connected to his belief that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> was a white man\u2019s country. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1924 speech<\/a> before the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Public_Health_Association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Public Health Association<\/a>, Plecker claimed that when the English, Dutch and Scottish landed on the shores of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North America<\/a>, they came \u201cto found a civilization of the highest type, not to mix their blood with the savages of the land, not to originate a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mongrel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mongrel<\/a> population.\u201d The fatal error, he believed, was made in 1619 when the Dutch introduced African slaves to North America. \u201cThe problem was not slavery,\u201d he told his audience, \u201cbut the presence of the negro in what should be a white man\u2019s land.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Susan Pearson, <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birth certificates have always been a weapon for white supremacists<\/a>,<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">\u201d<\/span> <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, September 11, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2018\/09\/11\/birth-certificates-have-always-been-weapon-white-supremacists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2018\/09\/11\/birth-certificates-have-always-been-weapon-white-supremacists\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Walter] Plecker was obsessed with white racial purity, a cause he clearly connected to his belief that the United States was a white man\u2019s country. In a 1924 speech before the American Public Health Association, Plecker claimed that when the English, Dutch and Scottish landed on the shores of North America, they came \u201cto found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30185,30186,2875,6372,1857,2474,2581],"class_list":["post-58807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-susan-j-pearson","tag-susan-pearson","tag-the-washington-post","tag-walter-a-plecker","tag-walter-ashby-plecker","tag-walter-plecker","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58808,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58807\/revisions\/58808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}