How far Blacks have come! In the 1950s, they were worthless idiots. But now, they’re geniuses [1].
[1] “What shocked me were my interviews with scholars of non-western cultures. Here, I am referring not only to western specialists in the great non-western traditions, but scholars who were themselves born into those traditions – Arab archaeologists or writers, economists and historians from India and China, poets and dramatists from Japan and Africa. All of them – there were no exceptions – said the same thing. In the 20th century, in the modern world, there were no non-western ideas of note.” — writer Peter Watson, in his important article “Lost in the Swamp of Modernity,” in The New Statesman, 29 October 2001. (I’m surprised that this article remains online at a British magazine; better copy it to disk now before the UK’s anti-racism police flush it down the memory hole).
