Martin Jacques Quotes
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.
Jacques, Martin. "A society dripping in racism." The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 18 Jan. 2007.
This statement was widely interpreted to be a statement of Western Christian superiority over the Muslim world.
Often referred to as “The Dean of Black Historians.”. He and his colleagues are more critical of the educators and politicians who control the history that reaches students than of the historians themselves though some of them are included in the criticism. Their major criticism is that African influence upon Minoan and other cultures that influenced Greece, Rome and Turkey are minimized or even extirpated in most curricula. Most American students see a straight line from Ancient Greece to the Western civilizations of today with no African influence or deviations.
This quotation shows that the racism and master race of Nazi Germany was a norm in Germany well before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It was an endemic part of the culture. This makes the German post WWII reforms all the more remarkable as the vast majority of an entire nation had to radically change its world and personal views and perceptions.
The question has always been of adherents of this viewpoint, “How do we decide which side is the more civilized. The Nazi Germans thought they were the most civilized people in the world and killed more than 22 million people demonstrating their civilization which most others looked upon as savagery.
Surprising to most people who know of President Theodore Roosevelt’s general liberals, his 4th son was an ultraconservative who founded and joined racist, anti-Semitic, right wing organizations, and to the distress of many in the family and without lent his name to many of the most extreme right wing causes and organizations.
That is exactly what happened. However it would not happen until after the Second World War.
“FHA” was the Federal Housing Administration. This federal agency de facto controlled the vast majority of the mortgage loans in America. The agency, under the control of racists, redlined black neighborhoods from obtaining mortgages and even worse discouraged mortgage loans even in affluent white areas if it was an affluent Negro family that wanted to buy a house there. {637259} and {637260} are quotations which are examples of FHA racist policies.
He was President of the European Parliament at the time he gave this interview. . The “Demons” to which he referred were the hyper nationalism and constant warring that plagued Europe culminating in the German Nazi conquest and near success. The European Community had presided over a longer period of European peace than ever existed before in the last millennium of World history.
Martin Jacques is a British journalist and academic. Jacques was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, becoming, in his own words, "a member of its Executive Committee, probably the youngest member ever at about twenty-two". He was editor of the party's journal, Marxism Today, from 1977 until its closure in 1991.
